I’m not much of an outdoorsman. To me, “the outdoors” is that area between my front door and my car door. So, when my girlfriend at the time — let’s just call her Barbara for the sake of this story...

A Beginners Guide to Transcendental River Rafting

Naked Dwayne and His Bit-O-Honey

“The Exorcist” Is the Greatest Commercial for Catholicism Since the Inquisition

How to Find a Soulmate in 3 1/2 EZ Steps

Big G and the Little Lenny Roll

Going All the Way on My First Date with Alice B. Toklas

Lessons From My Grandmother

I remember the first time I saw a naked man. It was the summer of 1974. I was 10 years old. And it was awesome. My childhood was like those Our Gang movies. There were 14 of us kids living in...

My paternal grandmother was a wise, self-assured, independent woman who was certainly ahead of her time. From the moment I could understand language she was filling my freshly-minted...

I no longer have any interest in dating, nor the energy for it. I’m not 26 anymore. I’m 56. I have trouble getting up in the middle of the night to take a piss and I’m supposed to go on dates?

This article is part of my Over 50 and Over It series. Having passed the half-century mark, with less living in front of me than behind me, I no longer suffer lightly the residual folly of a world...

Horror films don’t scare me. I don’t like splatter films (too violent), nor loud audio stings that make me reflexively jump (too easy). But horror films don’t scare me. How could they? I’ve owed over...

It’s no surprise to me that of all my Medium articles, one of the most popular is Lessons From My Grandmother, my no holds barred, hard-hitting tribute to my paternal grandma...

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