Carl Lance

Not Made For That

A 29-year-old ground technician stole a twin engine, 76 seat passenger plane from the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. The untrained, inexperienced video-game player single-handedly started the engines, took off and flew the $30 million aircraft over Puget Sound. He performed unbelievable acrobatic maneuvers during his wild 60-minute ride. He eventually crashed the plane into the uninhabited […]

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The Change

     My grandson calls me Grandpa-Far-Far-Away, because he lives in Texas and I lived overseas for all his 11 years.  Yes, we visited as often as we could and stayed in contact as much as possible, but we always lived “far-far-away.”   That changed when I retired and moved back to Texas.  Now I see him quite a lot.  I

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The trial

The room was filled with nervous excitement as the legal teams prepared to do battle. The defendant was bound by chains and hung his head in shame as he waited for his crimes to be displayed for all to see. He had failed and would have to pay a horrible price for all he had

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Favored

Have you ever been “favored” by anyone? Do you want to be? It isn’t a term we commonly use in the U.S., but we use “favorite” and want to be someone’s favorite, especially someone important! I have always referred to my grandchildren as my favorites. My grandson was our favorite grandchild until his sister came

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