
Don't Let the Fear Keep You From Flying
“I’m a mandarin orange. I’m a mandarin orange. I will not fall out of the Jell-O.” I had an extreme fear of flying until about three years ago. I remember selling sea travel to anyone who worried about the limitations of my high-skies anxiety. “If you won’t get on a plane, you’ll never see Italy,” they’d say. (It was always Italy. I was very Italian, but I was also very English and very German. In my experience, the Italian culture has a way of dominating.) “I’ll take a boat,