![]() ![]() It taught me to be honest about myself.” Ferguson rarely references other celebrities, refreshingly avoiding name-dropping. Not just the view from the plane but about myself, where I am in the world and the extent of my abilities. ![]() “What flying taught me wasn’t just how to control an airplane,” he writes. Here, he directs his attention to some of his more memorable moments, including a conversation he had as a teenager with a young dying woman that has haunted him years later an interaction with an Australian bartender that brought his issues with drinking into sharp focus and confronting his fear of flying by taking flying lessons. The author covers some familiar ground from his previous memoir: his Scottish heritage, bouts with alcoholism and path to sobriety, marriages and children. ![]() In this follow-up of sorts to his 2009 memoir America on Purpose, comedian and former talk show host Ferguson has assembled an eclectic volume of introspective essays that broadly reflect on his life experiences and travels. A memoir in essays by the former host of The Late Late Show. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |