Blurb: Sam is a fifteen-year-old drug orphan living with her custodial grandmother who is stricken with late-stage Alzheimer’s. She struggles to fill the role of caregiver to her grandmother while keeping her little family a secret from the authorities who would send Gamma to a state facility and Sam to foster care. Just because her life isn’t hard enough, […]

I honestly don’t go flying much any more, but this is probably indicative of just how much things have changed in the airline industry.  On this date in 1930, Iowa native Ellen Church became the first airline stewardess (remember when they were called that?).  She was aboard a Boeing Air Transport from Oakland, CA to Chicago, IL.    Interestingly, it […]