At the edge of an airplane dooor
At the edge of an airplane door ready to let go I can feel my whole life like a piece of quartz in my hand lsc I've found nothing [...]
Altitude is your friend
In 1981 I made my first skydive, a static line deployment at Skies West, a sport skydiving center in Loveland, Colorado. That experience radically changed my life in ways [...]
John Nichol, mariner and memoirist.
John Nichol, mariner. I would have liked to have known him. Re-reading his episodic memoir (I first read it at sea on a Pacific voyage - the same waters he [...]
Adventures in reading: Stories from Nagovisi
A Red Woman Was Crying by Don Mitchell My rating: 5 of 5 stars I stumbled upon this collection of linked short stories at a bookstore in Hilo and [...]
A visit from the ghost of Christmas Past
Last night the Dickensian wraith in white touched my hand and took me to the attic in my head where I keep my Christmas tree decorations and holiday memories. In [...]