“It’s a small world” is the chorus of a song that’s looped incessantly at Disney amusement parks, and so it became the theme of this year’s Women in Aviation International conference, held in Orlando, Florida at the Disney Coronado Springs resort. I came to Orlando for the conference in a rather foul mood and not [...]
Posts from ‘February, 2010’
Flying in circles.
Yesterday I flew to Tangier Island with a good friend, a true friend, a real friend. I went to reclaim it nearly one year after my first magical visit, to touch my wheels softly on the runway, to walk along the footbridge past the water tower and the dilapidated boats, to inhale the soft suggestion [...]
Snowmageddon.
It seems that most people here in the Washington, DC area are on the verge of “going Postal” over this blizzard situation. I calmly telecommuted in my pajamas all day today (what day is it anyway? I’m losing track of time…) and then, around 4 p.m., decided to maintain a modicum of civility by showering, [...]
Snow or sand?
The sun is shining, the air is warming up and the snow is starting to melt a bit. I’ve been digging out all morning but taking breaks here and there to have some fun playing with M2. Standing in the driveway looking at the mounds of snow I’ve piled up in the yard, I noticed [...]
Making the best of the blizzard.
Well, it’s another snow laden Saturday here in the Washington, D.C. area, but conditions are far worse than last weekend, when at least some people were apparently able to go fly while others were stuck behind snow banks. The developing situation today is what everyone’s calling Snowpalooza, worthy of maximum font size newspaper headlines. What’s [...]
Snow blows.
And I do mean that in the most literal sense possible. The National Weather Service for the Baltimore/Washington area issued a winter storm warning at 2:10 p.m. suggesting that we are in store for more than a foot of wet snow to fall upon our homes and runways, starting tomorrow and continuing on through Saturday, [...]
Reset button?
Maybe one day someone will develop a reset button labeled LIFE. A do-over button for the whole damn thing. Wouldn’t that be nice? Sure it would. Right? But it would never work. Because we’d keep pressing it over and over, getting so fixated on the stupid button that we’d forget to fly the airplane in [...]