This book contains seven numbered essays that F. G. Marcham shared most often with friends and others, and an eighth, unnumbered essay on nature, delivered at Cornell's Adult University. He also prepared a list of nine rules to live by, which he shared with students who asked advice and in a video to be available on DVD, "A Last Class". Prof. Marcham's views on his relation to others, nature, God, and aging, and rules to guide one's life are also part of this book.