| I know ya'll are gonna think I'm pulling your legs, but I | | | | first question was, |
| swear on a stack of BTO CDs that I received the | | | | "Have you ever written anything while in the nude?" |
| following email just a couple of days ago.... | | | | The answer to that is an unequivocal NO! I write in an |
| Ed, | | | | old wood chair, and most of the time it's a cold wood |
| I just wanted to drop you a quick note and tell you | | | | chair. Make that a very cold wood chair. There's a |
| how much I enjoy reading your various writings. I get | | | | better chance of me writing in a pink tu-tu than there is |
| "Free Wheelin'" in my local paper, and after reading | | | | of me writing naked. |
| some of your columns I went and purchased your first | | | | The next, and thankfully last one, |
| book. I'm also pleased to learn that you have a second | | | | "If not, would you consider it if you felt it would help |
| one that's just out. Congratulations on your writing | | | | your creativity? |
| successes. | | | | NO! Being naked, cold, and embarrassed would not |
| My name is Peggy, and I live in Tampa, Florida. To be | | | | help my creativity in the least. |
| more precise, I live in a nudist resort just outside of | | | | You know, stuff like this makes me wonder what's the |
| Tampa called "Eye Full City." I find the lifestyle to be | | | | world coming to? Why's there all this hoopla about |
| exhilarating, and I actually find that it stimulates my | | | | being naked in public places? Last night, they had |
| creativity. My hobby is painting landscapes, and I | | | | someone on Entertainment Tonight who's starting a |
| always do my best work when my mind is free of | | | | nude airline! I kid you not! You buy a ticket to fly |
| stress and my body is free of clothing. | | | | somewhere with them, and as soon as the plane is in |
| I was wondering if the same thing might be true of | | | | the sky and the pilot turns off the "fasten seatbelt" |
| writing. Have you ever written anything while in the | | | | sign, you're free to drop your drawers! Can you |
| nude? If not, would you consider doing it if you felt it | | | | imagine it? People walking up and down the aisles of |
| would help your creativity? | | | | the plane naked as jaybirds. What if the plane |
| Looking forward to your answer, | | | | happened to hit some turbulence, and some eighty |
| Peggy Pinkapples | | | | year old guy with a flabby gut was headed down the |
| Let me first go on the record and state that I didn't | | | | aisle? It's too horrible to even think about. Or what if |
| write Peggy back. Didn't even think about it, to be | | | | some nudist spills a cup of hot coffee in their lap? The |
| honest. A woman that paints in the nude and asks a | | | | one positive thing about that would be the creative |
| stranger if he writes his stuff while naked is not a | | | | cussing that would slip from the scalded person's lips, |
| woman I'd want to know. Frankly, the only flakes I | | | | but the rest would not be pretty. |
| want to become acquainted with are in my favorite | | | | Frankly, not everyone is meant to run around naked, |
| cereal, Post Raisin Bran - not naked female ones from | | | | and I'll freely admit to being one of those that needs to |
| Florida. Plus, I'll bet you anything and a dollar that there | | | | stay clothed. Being naked needs to be confined to just |
| are mops in my closet more attractive than this | | | | two activities, and let's face it - we all know what they |
| woman is. There's no doubt about it in my mind at all - | | | | are, and I'll keep my editors happy by not going into |
| let's face it, if she was a fox, no self respecting | | | | detail about them here. Other than that, we ought to |
| husband/boyfriend would let her go prancing around | | | | keep our clothes on at all times. May as well keep |
| naked all the time. | | | | some level of mystery going about things as the vast |
| Even though I won't be getting to know her, let me be | | | | majority of us aren't candidates for centerfolds when |
| sure and answer her two questions. If I don't, there are | | | | we're naked. As Ed Jr. told me one time years ago, it's |
| guys out there like Jackie Little, Mike Griffin, and Greg | | | | one thing for people to think you're a haint, but it's a |
| Berryhill who might be tempted to get all sorts of | | | | whole 'nother thing to go out of your way to prove it |
| rumors started about what my answers might be. Her | | | | to them... |