Life In Escrow

Existential adventures in standby I’m the person who boards your flight last Or, close to last. Not because I overslept or missed a connection from another airline or I couldn’t find the right gate. I’m what the airlines refer to…
Existential adventures in standby I’m the person who boards your flight last Or, close to last. Not because I overslept or missed a connection from another airline or I couldn’t find the right gate. I’m what the airlines refer to…
Seriously, I’ll drop everything for these articles As the most truncated Thanksgiving in living memory takes its place in history, I suggest we take a few minutes to consider what news we will be grateful for in the please-God-not-too-distant-future. With…
Air travel in the time of COVID-19 What would it take to get you back on an airplane? We seem to have reached a collective understanding that the general quarantine measures under which the vast majority of us lived during…
Is your well of creativity running dry? Get in the car In my experience, there is nothing that both relaxes and unleashes the imagination like settling in for a long car ride. Not a commute, not a schlepp to a…
But it may be a front-row seat to the end of the world. Last year, my oldest son, who is both single and an airline pilot and therefore can take spur-of-the-moment trips to points all over the globe, messaged me.…