Southwest Flight 812: Making sense through story
After a fitful 90 minute nap, I find myself in a TV studio preparing for live TV. Not my typical Saturday morning …
Southwest Flight 812: Restoring my faith in humanity
Emergency landing in Yuma. It’s been less than 18 hours since Southwest Flight 812 made an emergency landing in Yuma, Arizona with …
Southwest Flight 812: I prefer my plane without a sunroof, thanks
An explosion. A loud rush of air. A nosedive toward the ground. An oxygen mask? I had not anticipated a change in cabin …
Daily Musing: Pug overload
It started innocently enough. A puppy seems innocent, right? (Well, cute at any rate.) One day my sister Emily introduces a pug …
The Malvinis take Manhattan (and parts of Brooklyn and the Bronx, too)
I lead a charmed life, one filled with riveting academic articles to read like “Chemosensory Cues to Conspecific Emotional Stress Activate Amygdala …
Daily Musing: Cocaine is not for kids
The Williamsburg Bridge. (My sis and I walked it from Brooklyn to Manhattan!) Lola first tried heroin when she caught her husband …
Daily Musing: Accounting for creative terrorists
La Guardia Airport. Dig that graphic. In the last 48 hours, I’ve traveled to New York and back, sleeping approximately 8 hours, …
Daily Musing: Red-eyes and gypsy cabs
So as not to lose a whole day traveling east, I took the red-eye to New York last night. After a “minor” …
Daily Musing: Organizing my snacks
My travel gauntlet begins. Red-eye to New York tonight. LA, Honolulu, Chicago, Oklahoma and Seattle after that. At least I will be …
Daily Musing: So you call yourself a writer?
When you define yourself as a writer, you’re supposed to write. (I know, such a revelation!) But so often I find myself …