by Dave | May 25, 2025 | Memoir
Another life ago, I was the champion of my situation. I had just opened a school teaching paragliding. At the time, paragliding was a very new sport – a parachute that could fly like a hang glider and do more or less the same things. It was a tiny revolution in free...
by Dave | May 9, 2025 | Memoir
It was in the eighties. I was traveling around Australia with my long-suffering girlfriend, Sue Barrett. We had spent a few months hitchhiking, and I think I had exhausted her. I didn’t mind sleeping rough, getting soaked to the skin while waiting for a ride, or...
by Dave | Apr 28, 2025 | Memoir
It’s kind of funny how some stories never leave your mind. I have a story that I would like to share, and the reason I want to share it is a little like Schrödinger’s cat – if it is not told, it may as well never have happened. It is a story of love turned into an...
by Dave | Apr 13, 2025 | Memoir
Do you know the story of Icarus? It comes from Greek mythology. Icarus fashioned himself wings from feathers and stuck them to his arms with beeswax. This strategy worked – and worked very well – but Icarus flew too high, too near the sun. The sun melted the wax, the...
by Dave | Mar 25, 2025 | Memoir
Life in the World of Heroin Most of you have probably seen the film Trainspotting – a black comedy about heroin addicts in Edinburgh. It’s a shocking film, but it offers a raw and honest look into heroin addiction: the massive internal highs and the devastating lows....
by Dave | Mar 15, 2025 | Memoir
My love of hang gliding took me on a quest for endless summers – chasing summer in Europe, then heading Down Under to catch it again. The pinnacle of flying hang gliders is going cross-country: flying from thermal to thermal, using these columns of rising warm air to...
