It isn’t the same and I won’t pretend it is. But last year has been on my mind, a lot lately. Maybe it is because hurricane season is gearing up, but I’ve also heard some snarky comments like “if you think these families ought to be together, then why don’t you open your home.” LittleContinue reading “Opening Doors”
Category Archives: Travel
Remembering
“Four shirts, four pairs of pants, a snow machine suit, and I’m still cold.” Thus began my journal, on this this day in 2000. I was in Fairbanks, Alaska, flying a 1946 McDonald Douglas DC-4 delivering fuel to remote villages. This contract pilot stent may very well be the craziest thing I’ve ever done andContinue reading “Remembering”
Women in the Cockpit
I am a pilot. I learned to fly to fly before I learned to drive. I started to work when I was 13 years old and saved every penny I made to pay for my flying. It was my dad’s airplane, but I had to pay for part of it. That’s who he was –Continue reading “Women in the Cockpit”
Detesting Dulles Airport
Let me begin by saying my favorite approach is the river visual into Reagan airport, to runway 19 . From the cockpit, flying down the Potomac with monuments on either side is nothing short of exhilarating. As a passenger, I don’t get the same view, but I do enjoy the views of the city. Given theContinue reading “Detesting Dulles Airport”
Dr. Suzanne Minarcine 