Quotes by Clyde Edgerton

“centered all my aspirations and hopes about where Id end up: in a jet fighter cockpit.”

“In this group, not many are what I would call locals, so they have been fascinated with local history, ... Cold Mountain.”

“Raney ... Describes more people I know than any book Ive read.”

“Solo: My Adventures in the Air,”

“strong , long-dormant urge to fly came thundering back alive after almost twenty years. I had to get one of these little airplanes. I had to start flying again. Suddenly . . . I was rehooked, reinfatuated.”

“[Then it was on to Asia. Based at Yokota Air Base in Japan, he rotated regularly to Osan Air Base in South Korea, where he was on alert to fly into Russia and drop nuclear weapons on military targets.] Sitting alert in Korea was not practice, ... It was the real thing. I look back on that time . . . with a kind of amazement. No one expected that we would really drop a nuclear bomb on Russia. On the other hand we were prepared to do just that -- or thought we were. . . . I dont remember the particular targets near the city I was always slated to bomb, Vladivostok. But our four aircraft were possibly on the way to kill thousands of innocent people. People whod never lifted a finger to harm me -- and never would.”

A parentologist is a person who writes a book about parenting that is very clear about answers to, How am I supposed to raise my child? Some of these well-intentioned people may be a bit too sure-footed on the sometimes slippery slope of parenting.

Because we men have been physically stronger and more arrogant, weve influenced much of the cool stuff of the world, like basing the definition of courage on what we do on battlefields rather than on the patience or endurance or tolerance necessary for a sometimes painful daily grind that includes small children.

Recently, I was preparing to sing Springsteens If I Should Fall Behind for a wedding and was unable to get through it without tears. My wife handed me Love You Forever. I read it. I cried. But that cry somehow cured me of crying while singing the song. Go figure.

A working definition of fathering might be this: fathering is the act of guiding a child to behave in ways that lead to the childs becoming a secure child in full, thus increasing his or her chances of being happy and fruitful as a young adult.