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I used to talk a lot. I mean in public. With people listening. Believe it or not, I got paid.

There used to be three things you never discussed in polite company lest you offend someone and start a cuss fight, or worse. Politics, religion and sex.

Back in the day — and I mean way back in the 1950s — when my family went to Florida, we would leave around 2 in the morning.

The call came in on a Sunday afternoon. I let the machine get it. When I got around to listening, I discovered a long, rambling message from someone affiliated with the Athens YMCA. The person on the recording went on and on, so it seemed to me, about a person who had worked at the Y for a long time and was something of a local hero in Athens. The crux of the matter was that there was a committee and the committee wanted a book written about this hero and they wanted me to be involved. I didn’t return the call. I was up to my neck in alligators and had a couple of projects of my own g...

I love the water and always have, and this summer I am determined to put in as much pool time as I possibly can.