Plane & Pen

Since my last post, the Maui fires destroyed the present and past of Lahaina and the news broke of Alaska Airlines buying 94-year-old...

"Hey! I'm off probation!" I texted excitedly to a friend. "Where have you been?!" he replied. That's when I realized my non-aviation...

We all know most people working with an airline are in it because either they love aviation, they love to travel, or both. It's...

What is a go-around in aviation terms? According to the American Heritage on-line dictionary, a go-around is "a landing approach that...

My seven year old son, Boone, set the ground rules for this year's mommy-son adventure. We must fly in and out of Burbank. We should be...

Birdwatching, in all senses of the word, is what I do when I go to Bayfront Park near SFO. Let me take you with me! I open FlightRadar24...

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,/ And sorry I could not travel both/ And be one traveler, long I stood/ And looked down one as far as...

A few weeks ago I started my job as a ramp agent for Southwest Airlines. This was a new-to-me position in a field in which I had never...

How do you know when you are an anomaly? Ask your instructor how many women ramp agents there are out of over 100 rampers at your station...

Have you ever made a promise to yourself...and kept it? Last year, during the thick of self-sacrifice and "adulting" desperation, I told...

Driving home to San Francisco from a job down peninsula I made an wrong turn. To be honest, I exited the freeway near the airport on a...

My first grader son and I headed to what might have been the first official airshow in California in 2021. The 40th annual Wings Over...

My 6 year-old son and I had a mommy-son date to Hiller Aviation Museum this week. With the pandemic cancelling our favorite local airshow...

How is flying like writing? Natalie Goldberg, a writing teacher and author, believes that the act of repeated, time-specific, automatic...

The Lockheed T-33. Fast. Loud. Funny-lookin'. Minutes ago I spoke to my Uncle Stan who flew one of these babies in the mid-1950's, when...

People don't just say what they say for no reason. Their ideas come from something, an experience, a projection, a need to sound...

Spring Break. A week without preschool for my son. A week without time to study ground school or prep for flights, let alone any writing....

I'll admit it. I'm one tired mama. I am experiencing everyday life--keeping children fed, clean and well-slept while coordinating life...

In the distance turboprops drone…. What have I been doing to move my life in aviation forward in the past two weeks? Adding thrust? I’d...

Fear? What Fear? Why am I driven to move from the passenger seat to the pilot’s seat? It’s a bit like asking yourself whether you’re the...