Our plane landed just one hour after leaving Busan. I looked outside my window and laid eyes on Jeju-do, the largest island in South Korea. Travel had been a whirlwind…
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The Friendly Skies
The flight felt brutally long. Unlike the last time I flew overseas, when Continental Airlines had been kind to stock their planes with in-flight time-wasters such as movies, video games,…
Be the Reds!
The flight attendant gently shook me awake. “Sir, we’re about to land. Please return your seat to the upright position.” It took several moments for me to process her…
Goat Wars
I forget their names, but back in the day we had some amazing next-door neighbors when we lived in Southlake. The husband was pure Texan, tall, handsome, well-mustached and born…
"Wanna Go Schwimmin'?!"
Everything was hazy. “Matthew,” called a muffled voice, “time to wake up.” My surroundings, although fuzzy, would come into slow, painstaking focus as the voice gently called to me. “Matthew,…
"Why Aren't You Watchin' the Game, Boy?"
As I hit the outskirts of Shreveport, screaming down westbound I-20, it suddenly dawned on me that the national championship game was being played at that moment. In fact, it…