“Where were you ten years ago, Mr. Writer, when I had twice as many members?”
On the last morning of the reunion, the hospitality room again filled with CNAC people and their wives. I sat to the side and watched them socialize, the conser...
Category: China’s Wings
Posts related to my book, CHINA’S WINGS
“I have no doubt I could start it up and fly her out of here.”
CNAC veterans Fletcher “Christy” Hanks and Gifford Bull scrambled up the ladder into the plane and made a bee-line for the cockpit. I clambered up a...
“Back then, I was younger than you are now.”
The reunion room thundered with band of brothers camaraderie, packed with overjoyed old dudes slapping backs and bellowing into each other’s hearing aids, faces...
You’d better hope you fall in love with it
Us narrative non-fiction guys and gals are pretty dependent on the quality of the stories we discover. A story swallows a massive chunk of your life if you deci...
Waiting… I’ve been doing a lot of it, and it’s making me a little crazy.
Waiting. I’ve been doing a lot of it these last five or six months, and it’s making me a little crazy. I’m waiting to hear back from my editor at Bantam Dell, a...