Perceptions and the gift of being labeled high maintenance.
pic courtesy of fashables.com “High maintenance,” a passerby shouts from an opened window of a twin-dually pickup watching as I drag a 100 foot soaker hose across my front lawn. “Whew, heavy duty maintenance,” echoes from behind as I walk out of…
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Everything I’ve learned in aviation has taught me to think ahead. Hundreds of miles down the road. Plan in order to be prepared, learn to anticipate every possible outcome. While this strategy is incredibly useful in flying, it doesn’t translate so well…
Reminiscing…
pic courtesy of Google Images Do you miss flying? Rarely does a week pass that I’m not confronted with this question. Logical enough, since it was the career I chose. One I eventually left. Funny how long it has taken me to…
Gratitude and Moving Forward
Hempe computer. I whisper just before climbing from of bed. The shaman return-to-me energy I’ve put out in the universe everyday since December 17th. D-day at my house. The morning three robbers hurled a cinder block through a living room window…
Resolutions
pic compliments of NWF Daily News. I’m behind. I mean as far as setting some goals for the year. Have to admit I started jotting a list a few weeks back, but somehow this year the usual lose the final five pounds,…
True Blood
The sun lit the pale blue sky, eagerly, I suspected, after three days of dense rainy weather. Hungry for breakfast, I left our house, tracked around the saw horses and piles of plywood enroute to our detached garage. Kitchen remodel, about six…
Sprint Car Racing and the Honor Code
picture compliments of google images Oh the places I go. Saturday night. A stone’s throw over the northern Oklahoma border. Caney Kansas. Sprint Car racing, 2012. There I sit. Perched like a hawk on sun-stressed bleachers, analyzing the quarter mile dirt oval…
Not So Hard to Say I’m Sorry
picture courtesy of Cartoon Pics Call me crazy, but lately it seems not so hard to utter the five letter word. Here are some of the apologies I’ve heard in the past couple of weeks. Some thoughtful, others, however, not quite so…
Prehistoric Glam
picture courtesy of Google A polite response to cave dwellers who still treat flying blonds as a special needs group: You’re grossly underutilizing valuable resources. E.L. Chappel author of Risk/Spirit Dance Laughing all the way up to 41,000 feet aka The Glamorous…
Accept or Reject?
pictures courtesy of Google Recently, I received a request from a professional networking site. An invite to connect. Common enough. Sure you can relate. This one, however, was different. A person from the past who I might consider, oh I don’t know, lets…