Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at Northeastern University

I got thrown out of school several weeks in my senior year being caught in the girls' dorm. This was 1954, friends. The girls' dorm was off limits. Even to girls, I think.

If you are going to live life on your own terms, there need to be terms, and somehow you need to live up to them.

Coincidence exists, but believing in it never did me any good.

This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show this to you until it's published or accepted for publication. You can make whatever suggestions you want, but I probably will ignore them entirely.

For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them.

This was 1954, friends. The girls' dorm was off limits. Even to girls, I think.