Category Spring 2010

After 18 years of faithful marriage my wife experienced a midlife crisis and had a fling late last year. It nearly destroyed me but what doesn’t kill you makes you stranger! Our marriage survived but I was left with the…

I had always dreamed of being in the MHC. On a summer evening back in ’96 , that dream came true. My girlfriend I took my fathers C-182 up for short local night flight in Midland, TX. Before we took…

After an uneventful takeoff and climb to altitude, I was beginning to wonder if taking a (third)date on a plane ride was a good idea. I allowed her to fly for a mile or two and she seemed to really…

Well . . . This experience is now 20 years old, but seeing a program on a Cable channel, I just could not resist! The man I was seeing at the time was a Paramedic who did Medivacs (medical evactuations…

I was on my way to my new military duty station in Korea and was stuck on a LONG international flight with nothing to do…or so I thought. Just a few minutes before the stewardesses shut the door, a very…

I was on my way to Tokyo for a training session the company had scheduled only the week before. Being Christmas time, the flight was fairly empty as most people were already where they wanted to be. I remember scanning…