Tomorrow my honorary nephew Connor McDowell will be competing in the Firefighter Combat Challenge finals.  I don’t overdo the word “proud,” but I’m deploying it now. Well done, sir. (Live…View post

This happened a few years back, and I think I posted these on the old version of the site, but just came across them again. One of my more memorable…View post

Some old Post-its I scribbled notes on down at the fire hall when I was working on Population 485. This October will mark ten years since that book came out…View post

Then this might be you, at 8 a.m. on a Saturday morning when all your cohorts are texting and getting ready to go to the mall (thank you, dear patient…View post

Inflate the blue one first. (Thank you S. and K.!)