58,000. That’s the population of the cities like Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Bozeman, Montana. Sanford, Florida. It’s also the number of names carved into the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C.…
There’s a list I carry in my head. People I’ve seen. People I’ve touched. People I watched on a stage and never forgot. A New York kid who ended up…
OK. Here I am, a gawky, skinny 15-year-old walking into where he was talking, not nicely, to my mom. There he is, way bigger than me. He coulda easily killed…
I was four years old. My dad was on a gurney, on his way out the door to the hospital after a heart attack. He looked up at me and…
She was young. She was beautiful. And I, a nine-year-old kid from Flushing, Queens, had a giant crush on her. Mrs. Swenson, my fourth grade teacher, was the person that…
My freakin internet connection doesn’t work. To fix that problem my gigantic corporate internet provider sent me a new cellular modem. I had to ask what the hell that was.…
"Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all." That's Hamlet. And I've been thinking about it for a while now. I am lazy. Ergo, I don't read Shakespeare very thoroughly.…
The water below was a beautiful shade of blue-green. The pink coral was shining through. Light winds. Variable. And me, a 24-year-old Air Force lieutenant navigator, hopping island to island…
Recently, I went online to book a room at a specific hotel in NYC. Clicked on "Reservation Desk." Thought I was talking to the hotel. Nope. I was on a…
An F-15E Strike Eagle, shot down over Iran. Both crew members ejected. The pilot rescued within hours. The second airman, a Colonel, spent more than a day evading capture in…