airplanes | airplanes
Jan.11.2013
It's time to come clean. New year, new day, nothing to hide, no looking back, right?
I am a travel junkie.
Oh my, that feels better already.
My guess is you all knew this before I did. You were kind, didn't want to say something that might set me off and damage our...
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Nov.06.2012
“Thank you for flying.”The silver-haired, Mt. Rushmore-profiled airplane captain walked among the few dozen of us in the SFO departure lounge. It was one week after 9/11. The world was still numb from the horror. After days of no flights at all, planes were starting to move, but...
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Feb.23.2012
"Bader Field; How My Family Survived Suicide" is now available on the iPad, iPod, iPhone, Kobo, Nook, and very soon on Kindle and in nearly 60 other digital markets worldwide for immediate download.
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Jul.27.2011
"Bader Field" by Carl David is now available on the Apple iPad in the Apple ibookstore
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May.27.2011
It was a heart-thumping, Norman Rockwell time to be a kid, during the Big War. Provided, that is, you could be a kid in the solidly patriotic U.S.A. The newsreels and the weeklies -- Life Magazine, the Saturday Evening Post -- featured the bravery and sacrifices of grown-ups; kids were swept up...
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Apr.25.2011
The summer I was fourteen, I crossed into Central America using a fake ID. It wasn’t the birth date on the ID that was fake (in Mexico, if somebody wanted to get their lips on a non-virgin pina colada, they could've if they were still sucking a pacifier).
No, what was fake was the ID itself....
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Jan.28.2011
We're 36,000 feet above the Mohave Desert, where $6 buys a very serviceable Bloody Mary.
A toast to my brother - Cheers! - who once got lost down there while hitchhiking somewhere.
Scott was always running away. That time, he got sidetracked for a couple of weeks in some rock hunters' camp,...
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Oct.26.2010
I was just beginning to catch a glimpse of the sun as the early morning flight began its ascent over Indianapolis. It was 5:15 a.m. and I was flying to Memphis, and then on a two-hour drive to NE Mississippi to visit with family. Let me make this clear, I am not a morning person. Numbly making...
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Oct.07.2010
We calculated a two hour layover allowed us enough time in Frankfurt to make our connection from Budapest to San Francisco. Last year on a similar layover here from San Francisco to Belgrade, the plane had left without us even though we arrived at the gate a half hour before departure. The last bus...
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Aug.28.2009
In our July 29 installment of the Daily Sam’s Guide to Etiquette we discussed armrests on airplanes when we are stuck in the middle seat between two strangers. We learned that you must choose one arm rest as yours and that you MUST NOT MOVE YOUR ARM AT ALL FOR THE ENTIRE FLIGHT, even if this means...
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