The Air Force ran on forms, acronyms, and the occasional act of faith. Most problems came to us via work order: a few scrawled words, a tail number, a location on the flight line, and a set of boxes waiting for signatures. The paper didn’t have much personality, but the people who filled it out […]
Gary R. Smith
Gary R. Smith—one-time radar tech, sometime systems guy, and accidental poet—has spent a lifetime in pursuit of curiosity. Raised in the industrial Midwest, tempered in the tropics, and now tucked into a forest in the Pacific Northwest, he spends his time writing, fixing things that don’t want to be fixed, and quietly avoiding the projects he started last week.

