StoryQuarterly
My short story “Into the Frying Pan” was recently published in StoryQuarterly. We’ve canceled six thousand flights in the last month, including the three I boarded here at SFO earlier this evening. Unfortunately none of these flights were called off before we filled every seat, served plastic trays of chicken and beef, poured umpteen cups of tap water passed off... Read More
Modern Love
Check out my Modern Love piece in The New York Times. How I Earned My Wings Back I GOT married a few months ago, but my husband — a proud Air Force pilot from a small town in Georgia — doesn’t know how we met. Rather, he doesn’t know the path that led me to him. By the time he was perched on one knee and presenting an engagement ring, I feared it was too late to tell the... Read More
LA Times
Check out my essay in the Los Angeles Times: There is an aspect of air travel that we’re likely to be putting out of our minds — pilots asleep at the yoke and flight attendants so tired their mental states can be likened to a drunken stupor. Most Americans are protected by the Fair Labor Standards Act, which since 1938 has limited the workday to eight hours and the... Read More
