
Tiny planes terrify me, especially when the pilot is my age. …

… even moreso when the pilot has to carve through icicles.

I skipped my senior year of high school; I’ve never had a physics class. It’s all magic to me, how this wimpy little propeller can hold a dozen adults in the air.

Only when we landed did I realize I’d slipped on the wrong shoes in my sleepless haste to leave for a 6:30 a.m. flight.

I walked a snowy quarter-mile in my little ballet flats and picked up some winter-appropriate attire from a store near my hotel.

Staying at the Days Inn by myself at Christmastime doesn’t compare to waking up on a flight attendant’s sprawling cattle ranch in the summer.