I Landed on an Aircraft Carrier Once. I Still Think About the Nine Months.

Personal EssayThe C-2 had been in the air about an hour when the crew signaled with their hands. Here we go, here we go. I was facing backward, which is not how you expect to land on anything, and the seats were not built for comfort so much as for the fact that every inch of that cabin was already claimed by cargo. Then the deceleration hit, 105 miles an hour to zero in about two seconds, and yo…
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Where the Wires Stop

My son texted me from the platform at Huntington. Everyone just got off the train. Not delayed, not canceled, just off, the whole car of people standing up in that particular hurr…
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Say Hello Before You Ask.

A friend of mine called on a Sunday night, not to talk about anything in particular, but to talk about a text message. Someone had replied to him with one word. "Sure." …
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