This Christmas give yourself a gift that attracts enduring friendships, business riches, self-discipline and peace of mind for a lifetime. It will put something into your step and handshake that was missing before and give your spoken words a resonance that draws attention and respect. It is something only you may give yourself and that [...]
The true story ‘X’ of my Veterinary School sex days triggered three love notes asking for dates, one from as far away as New York with an attached photo of a beloved Angora cat. From that arousal comes this sequel…. Vet School The Michigan State Vet School sits in the southeast corner of [...]
We were taught some nutty things in Veterinary School that eventually applied to humans. I was a sexual underachiever at nineteen who burned the pages of large animal anatomy texts while others on campus wasted time on ‘Playboys’. There was so much to learn and so little time – six years. Cows are charmed by [...]
A strange act of nature occurred this morning, Sept. 16, 2005, on the way to the computer to write you. I took a habitual, early hike in the Sonora desert along flats and rolling hills of rock and cacti given a green tinge by an autumn cloudburst. It was already 100 F. I heard a [...]
Today I walked past the window of a hut where a parrot sat on the shoulder of a seamstress bobbing his head with the ancient machine. I entered to get a secret pocket sewn in my britches, took them off and walked around in shirt as she stitched. A daughter stepped out of Playboy magazine and offered [...]
I read last night the first two chapters of L’Amour’s Mojave Crossing to reconnoiter my upcoming parallel adventure. Tell Sackett stops at every landmark in my memory along the trail including Fort Mojave, Piute Range, the Old Government Road, and Rock Springs. Sackett hasn’t spoken yet of the weather that would be first off his [...]
Alba, spry at 70, was reborn ten years ago on settling in Sand Valley. All her previous life she aspired to be a nun. As a child, she begged at the nunnery steps and was told to scoot to school. After college with a business degree a Sister ordered her to ramrod the family million-dollar [...]
Flames lick the window of a skid road room in San Francisco as I try to save the date in a bucket brigade from the shower and relate as rapidly as the hands fly how the curtain rose over my sex life in veterinary school so long ago, chasing a female intern to and from [...]
She moves like a panther in the dark. The show rolls in an elegant Kenyan theatre but I can't take my eyes off the peanut girl. She approaches as the screen brightens, brushes me with candies, then disappears. The intent makes the seat hard. At intermission, I see she's a princess. She stands close and [...]
'Why read a book when you can have sex?' repeated the shapely Chinese lady, a foot taller than her Philippine counterparts. I was looking for the Power Plant bookstore on Burgo Street in Manila. She invited me under an umbrella, cooing, 'You’ll be surprised at what it costs on a night like this. 'I'd rather [...]