Memorial Day

Memorial Day is always a much-needed three-day weekend, the portal into summer, with its barbecues, camping, and outdoor fun, but it’s always bittersweet: a reminder of my older brother and the other military members of all branches who died in service to our country....

Friday the 13th

I’m fascinated by superstitions, and it’s funny how pervasive they are, even to those who are not particularly superstitious, who still may “knock on wood” to indicate their hopes of avoiding bad luck. Of course, for a writer, bad luck is good for storytelling, and...

Night Flights

This Fly Boy photo of Travis’ innuendo-laden answer to Tricia is a good illustration of night flight. There’s more to see in the daylight but flying at night brings a special joy: all the lights below, the vast dark swaths of water or undeveloped land, the pulsing...

Getting Your “Ticket”

  Getting Your Ticket “Write what you know” is reasonable advice, to bring realism to fiction and avoid “gimme a break” moments which pull readers out of a story. Thus, when I had a chance to do another All American Boy story, I jumped at it. Since each must have...

Happy St. Patrick’s Day

My earliest memories of St. Patrick’s Day are of being chased on the playground, fleeing the pinching fingers of my classmates. Over the next few years, it proved a perfect excuse for interaction with boys, who were otherwise best avoided. All I knew otherwise was...

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