Many nursery rhymes express fear, suffering and disaster. Ring Around the Rosie was about the bubonic plague; Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater couldn’t keep his wife, so he imprisoned her; a farmer’s wife amputated the tails of three visually impaired mice and the parenting techniques of The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe would today Read More
Trees, TERPS and Bilingual Lingo Perhaps our litigious, lawsuit-happy society is to blame for the migration of carefulness into all aspects of our lives. With the plethora of scattered notes and cautions, even our instrument procedures can seem as if they’re written in a foreign language. But threatening cautions, warnings and notes usually appear after Read More
Left Brain = logic, language, math. Right Brain = art, music, intuition, love. How to engage both when towing an airplane. Saying ‘I Do’ to DIY aircraft towing. What makes an airplane fly? Airspeed and money, right? Regulations, physicals, training, financing, maintenance, insurance, fuel, cleaning and towing can merely be a means to our end Read More
“A stood for altimeter. It told how high a man flew. B stood for boost. It told the power in the engines. C stood for compass. It told in which direction a man was proceeding. It was delightfully simple.” – Ernest K. Gann, Island in the Sky. An error of omission is not doing something Read More
Flying and the Christmas hustle-bustle-burn-out. Compassion — The feeling that arises when you are confronted with another’s suffering and feel motivated to relieve that suffering—showing sympathy and concern for others. Curmudgeon — A cranky, crusty, ill-tempered individual, full of stubborn ideas or opinions who is always angry, unhappy and seldom socializes with others. Christmas is Read More