I work for a major airline on the west coast. As an employee, I'm allowed the opportunity to travel that most people dream of. Basically free flight, paying only the taxes a normal passenger would pay. It sounds great, except you still have your living expenses on a very remote land and our wages are low. Not that I …

Again, around 1995, several families camped on the beach with all our children. My wife's not a swimmer, so when I took out a lot of snorkeling kids, she stayed on the beach looking at us. I realized that I was sitting with the husband of one of our friends, a guy who had made no secret of his admiration for my wife, …