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The Sleeper…
Nota Bene: This isn’t a part of One Foot in the Black. It’s not about my time as a hot shot, or fire, or the togetherness and shared suffering of life next to the ones I worked with. This is personal. A hot, burning coal that I’ve held for almost a decade, refusing to let go beca
Jun 22, 2025
Climb Every Mountain...
A little off the beaten path, but my sister turns thirty October 26th… We’re all in our thirties at this point. ’89, ’92, ’93. The Gulf War was a good time to make some babies, I guess. We all have our own different and unique relationship with each other, but we always seem to V
Oct 26, 2023
Things I Wish I Could Tell My Hotshot Rookie Self…
“Do you miss it?” Is usually the first question I receive from people who knew me during my time as a hotshot. The answer has become an instinctual reaction at this point. A subconscious reverberation from the deepest dwellings of my psyche, in which I withhold the filter that cu
Oct 1, 2023