If knowledge is an ocean, our understanding is but a grain of sand on the beach of that ocean. In this collection of grains of sand are the stories A Night in the Life of Judge Macro, My Obsession: The Decline of a Pastry Lover, The Letters of Dmitry Prokopovich, The Gold Anklet, On the Beach with the Evening News (Searching for a Friend), and The Pygmy Goat Show.