"Can a young man really not know what he wants until he comes face to face with it?"
It was the middle of August and the summer heat hadn’t yet arrived. It was beautifully warm, and indeed, very warm if you were working, but the mind-numbing stifling heat that usually arrived toward the end of summer hadn’t yet...
"Some friendships have a strange beginning."
The house Elam had lived in all his life was built in a style called Craftsman, but it wasn’t a very good example of the true Craftsman style. Besides the living room windows that opened onto the wide front porch,...
My sister, who is a year older than me, always had good taste in boyfriends. I liked every one of them, but a few of them stand out.When I was sixteen she had one named Richard who was nineteen. Mom...
"Their parents marrying leads to an unexpected relationship between two young men."
What I'm about to tell you may shock you. But then again it might titillate you. If Clay and I had gotten together six months before our parents got married or even the night before, it probably wouldn’t, but it also...
"A young man gets a memorable two years of college."
When I had graduated from high-school and was preparing to go to college my mother said it would be great if I roomed with the son of one of her friends. The university we both had chosen allowed for students...