Eric Rush

I was born in Dallas, Texas, in 1942. We lived in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, during WW II, then in Washington DC and Durham, North Carolina, before moving to Boulder, Colorado, in 1949. I graduated from Boulder High School (just barely) in 1960. After a short stint as an Air Force Weather Observer and an even shorter stab at college, I began a series of jobs in grocery stores, warehouses, radio stations, restaurants, barn construction, and day labor in Colorado, Kansas, Oregon, and New Mexico before moving to the Pacific Northwest in 1973. I lived the next half of my life on the Olympic Peninsula where I learned to fly. Each marriage lasted longer than the one before as I got better at it.

Intermittent attempts to write successful novels over the years convinced me, and publishers, that my life is more interesting than things I make up. Now that I'm retired, I have time to write about my life beyond the snapshots the newspaper columns in my first book--"Light & Dark"--offer.

"Looking Out the Window, Talking to the Person Next to Me: My Life in Airplanes" is available in print and as an e-book from most outlets. Order autographed copies at www.ericrush.com.

The next book, due out in 2015, is the story of a complete amateur building his dream house twenty years ago at the dawn of this age of complex and contradictory regulations. The title? "It's Too Bad I'll Never Build Another House Because Next Time I'd Know What I Was Doing".

I spent the last few years before retirement from flying in Wilmington, Ohio. My wife Nereida and I live now and forevermore not far from the Pacific Ocean in Hebo, Oregon.