Category: sex-twilight

Let Me Tell Ya
Bout the Birds and the Bees I’m sure many of you read the horrifying news in a recent New York Times Magazine that young people are learning about sex from porn that they see on the Internet. Yikes! Fellas! (And girls!) It’s not like that! It’s not anything like that! I’m not saying don’t watch (what ...
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He Showed Up
Levi G. 1953-2017 I won’t say that Levi was my best friend in the world—I have many wonderful friends—but he was the friend with whom I most resonated. When I was in Asheville we met every week for a couple hours, having breakfast and drinking coffee. As soon as we sat down we fell into the ...
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Overwhelmed
The Happiness that Takes Some Time to Ripen We had sat down for the reception at my niece’s wedding—tables of eight arranged all around the room—when I realized how my brother had seated us. It was the three living siblings from my generation—Bill, Rusty, and me, with our wives—along with our sister’s oldest child Tade and ...
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Why Can’t We Live in Paradise?
Reflections on the Words of a Homeless Man At the homeless shelter where I volunteer, I was interviewing a man who was being admitted, and was following the prompts of a questionnaire. “Do you have any disabilities?” I said. “No. No disabilities.” “Let me read the list,” I said. The last one was Drug Abuse. “Yes,” he said. “Drug abuse. ...
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True Book Man
Jay Dantry 1928-2016 When I look back on the influences on my life, I think readers have been more important than writers, and bookstores more important than teachers. That isn’t to diminish the influence of men like Reynolds Price and Wallace Fowlie at Duke, or my high school teacher David Britton, who was a huge help. ...
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