Falling Behind – Part 3

Falling Behind – Part 3

Have you read Falling Behind Parts 1 & 2? I wish the man behind me would wear headphones. He’s playing a game so loud it sounds like I’m in an arcade. The airline must be expecting that too, their announcements invade at a decibel level designed to be heard over a...
Falling Behind – Part 2

Falling Behind – Part 2

Have you read Falling Behind – Part 1? “I’ve been here before. I think we have to take a bus,” Brian says. We start down a hallway that, compared to those in terminal one, is narrow and barren. That bus Brian mentioned turns into an escalator, a train, another train,...
Falling Behind – Part 1

Falling Behind – Part 1

Two young men, between bites of burgers, recount recent travels. As one destination piles atop another, their stories swell. They wear a nonchalant freedom and  I wish I could don their wings, if only for a day. They are at the table beside us, in the Hong Kong...