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Most people go to the office and sit at a desk. When firefighters go to the office, we might birth a baby in the morning, save a drowning surfer in... →
It's hard in the firehouse to avoid the dessert thing. At 3 in the morning after some emergency, I have been known to eat an ice cream sandwich.
If there's a fire, I want to be there. Maybe because in being so close to death, I think I understand what it means to be truly alive.
GPS works great. I recommend it for all cat owners who want to know what their cats do when they're not there, if you can stand the ridicule from... →
I think as humans we do want to control our relationships, and you can't. It's probably better that you can't. That wouldn't be a... →
In a fire, you have to be thoughtful; you have to have a certain kind of intuitive smarts that the veterans have. I'm not there yet, despite the... →
Fire taps something ancient and vital in each of us, something both snarling and reverential.
I should really be lifting only five days. I'm sort of obsessed, and I end up going in six, sometimes seven, and that's not good. Something... →
I'm not a big eater. I'm a terrible cook, and so I don't cook for myself.
I don't think that we really know our animals. We think we do because we're humans, and we think we can control things like that. We... →