One night while sitting on my back deck my mind was drawn to a sweet memory. After spending more than 2 decades as a high school teacher I had taken on a whole new challenge in my career and I sat outside reflecting on the many experiences some good and some not. A memory that has been in my mind from the start of my teaching career came drifting back into my mind. It was the first Saturday after school let out for the summer; graduation had been the evening before. I had been asked to get my room ready for summer maintenance and had to have it done before the next Monday. As I was worki… 続きを読む

I had been working at a small woman’s college in a suburb of a large city for about 2 years. My dating life since I’d been there had pretty much been not existent. The problem was that I had no desire to violate my ethics so I couldn’t have a relationship with the ladies I had the most contact with. Also, with my teaching duties, research, and writing I just didn’t have time to meet anybody. It was around the end of the spring semester, when the students are wearing shorts and tight t-shirts to class and around campus. This had been causing me some distractions in class, not to mention in… 続きを読む

Over the last few months I’ve been talking, through facebook, with a lady that I graduated with from high school. We decided to meet at Denney’s for dinner last Friday. She had told me, in our correspondence, that she had gained some weight since high school. I told her I had done the same, I stand 5ft. 7in. and in high school I weighed 130 pounds and today I weigh 175, so I assured her that it would not be an issue. When she was in school she was around 5ft and weighed probably 100 pounds but the lady I met was probably 200 plus pounds. We sat across from each other during our dinner and… 続きを読む