Donna Barker, good for you – volunteering is selfless and brave! Smoke jumpers are amazing – we don’t have them here. We have 4WD and 6WD offroad fire tankers and aircraft, and we only bother to fight the fires where they threaten property and life.
I never write well about the stuff I’m emotionally attached to. As my brother responded to my wife when she said, “There’s been a lot of anger while he’s been losing this weight,” there was a lot of anger putting in on in the first place. This…
My first brush with danger was about two weeks before I was born. I remember it well.