People mark their milestone birthdays differently. Me, I chose a fundamental leap of faith. One month before my 40th birthday, at 12,500 feet, I jumped out of an airplane. I did it quite calmly and without any expectations. Strangely enough, it didn’t really hit me until I was in a Delta passenger airplane on my way home from California. Watching …
Beer, hotdogs, baseball, and fireworks spell an American experience
I spent a week out in California amid a wash of lavender jacaranda trees in bloom, fragrant citrus trees and rows of palm trees, not to mention large flowers that looked like white and purple fireworks. (Which I later found out were called lily of the Nile or agapanthus.) They wouldn’t be my only fireworks of the week, I also …