The Experiment

For years, several friends of mine have been trying to get me laid. They failed miserably. The biggest problem is that we have radically different priorities when it comes to…

Survival Is Not Enough

It has been a year since the Station Fire roared through my neighborhood, destroying over three-quarters of the homes here, not to mention the homes and businesses lost elsewhere in…

A Gift of Wings

The litany of Perris always went “hot air balloons,” “sky diving,” “fly ultralights,” in that order, and as soon as my mind heard “sky diving,” it locked up. Then I learned to fly…