I consider myself a lucky man to have Barbara as my wife. She was a 5'1", 102-pound petite package of feminine perfection. She was of Sicilian descent and had dark hair, sparkling brown eyes, a gorgeous smile, and a perfect, slender figure. Barbara's litt...
I was nineteen years old, and in my first year of college, I attended a large house party where I didn't know anyone. Somebody gave me a rum and coke, which quickly went to my head as I didn't drink. I sat down next to an older black guy named Jerome, who...
I was in my first year of graduate school. There was a requirement that we do a nine-month counseling practicum. I was assigned to an affiliated church camp for young male repeat offenders ages eighteen to twenty who had committed nonviolent criminal offe...
When I was twenty-two, I lived next door to a man named Kenny who was single and in his forties. Kenny had two passions in his life, his motorcycle and the love of astronomy. I didn’t know much about motorcycles but astronomy was my hobby. Kenny was somew...
In 1964 I was living in a small town in Illinois. My parents were in Florida for a few weeks setting up a business and finding a house so we could move. I was two months from finishing the eleventh grade. Being seventeen, they felt comfortable leaving me...
