Stories from the Sky

As a boy lying in the grass of his Michigan backyard, Richard Schlottman dreamed of soaring alongside the birds that drifted above him. Decades later, those dreams became reality when he discovered hang gliding and found his own wings. Stories from the Sky is a pulse-quickening collection of essays chronicling Rick’s decades-long obsession with the freedom of flight.

Born and raised in the shadow of Michigan’s rustbelt, Rick grew up in a place where the sky seemed impossibly far away,…