When I was a kid growing up in the 60’s, being an astronaut was just about the coolest thing you could be. Believe it or not, being a regular Airline Pilot wasn’t that far behind. People used to put on their Sunday best when they went flying, and the handsome pilot fresh out of the Air Force with his Crew Cut and chiseled jaw may as well have been James Bond. And that’s just what the men thought a...

Two years of my life I’ll never get back and what do I get for it? A bunch of people who’ve never accomplished shit calling me a liar, a whack job, or an attention seeker. That actually might not be the worst of it though, because the people who believe me - I mean REALLY believe me think I owe it to them to answer every single asinine question they have. And apparently since I’ve been gone there’...

There has never been a time that I haven’t known Charles. His first outing as a baby was as a 7 day old crammed in the back of a station wagon accompanied by his family to head to the hospital and watch me be born. It was 1956, and to wear out a phrase, we’ve been thick as thieves since. That’s not to say there hasn’t been an occasional row betwixt us, of course there have. Too many to count even ...