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- ▼October (6)
- Captain’s Log — Apparently the Cat Did Not Like Flying
- Get Out of the Hotel and Do Something
- Flying Over Titan
- I Met Him When He Came to the Flightdeck Wanting to Be a Southwest Pilot
- Decades Later, at a Bar, I Met a Stranger. We Talked About Mapping Text Adventures on Graph Paper
- IBM PCjr Flight Simulator is to blame. Or credit.
- ▼October (6)
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For a Moment, I Was a TV dad. And not a cool one.
Yep, go to commercial. For a moment I was a TV dad. Unfortunately, I wasn’t the cool dad or the quirky gay dad or the tough guy. I…
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Pacita Jugo Ladd… “Nana”
My Nana passed away on February 13th, surrounded by her family, after being diagnosed with cancer just a few weeks before. She passed very peacefully and kept her…
4 min read
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$#*! my son’s caterpillar doesn’t say
Several times between now and the era of the stage 2 Huggie overnight diapers, I’ve fallen down the rabbit hole of sleep deprivation, awakening in the land of…
4 min read
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Catholic School made me a Sinner
I put in twelve years of Catholic school… I was released on my own recognizance but served parole under the watchful eyes of a Baptist college. You could…
4 min read
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If you watch enough daytime TV… you will get cramps
The boy is almost nine months old, and since I’ve been back to work after paternity leave, I’ve been flying weekends. Although airport Chick-fil-A is closed on Sunday,…
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Mornings in a Hotel: “Where am I? What Time is it?”
A friend once told me that every day he wakes up in a hotel, it feels like waking up with a hangover. “I’m not sure where I am…
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