What has that damn kid done now? It was never good to get a note from the school, asking me to come in for “a talk.” My kid was a bright young man, but always getting into some kind of mischief. Never a big deal, it always seemed to me. But the school always took everything as a life-or-death matter, so I had to come in – again – to talk about it, whatever it was this time. I was a single dad, divorced; I had to take my r...

It wasn’t really “erectile dysfunction” – not exactly. I could get an erection and keep it hard for a good long time. The problem was getting it hard in the first place. Over the last few months, I seemed to have become a “slow starter”. After one too many encounters with women asking me “what’s wrong?” (thinking I wasn’t interested enough to get turned on), I decided it might be time to consult a doctor. I was told that...

My nurse’s name was Kim. Having been hospitalized a few times over the years, I was convinced that all the “sexy nurse” stereotypes were not true at all. Most nurses were nice, helpful, but always in a hurry. They generally just took care of business. In my experience, the hospital situation never lent itself to anything sexy. Except for Kim. She was a pretty girl in her mid-thirties, maybe five years younger than me. I d...