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  • Women in Aviation International, not just for women aviators anymore

    I had the opportunity to attend the 23rd-annual Women in Aviation International Conference, March 7-10, in Dallas, Texas with my co-workers Captains Jennifer Boman and Kim Link. The first conference, held in 1990, boasted an attendance of 150. This year more than 3,000 people showed up.The first

  • Jog safely

    Music may provide you with an energy boost and good vibes for your outdoor workout activities such as bicycling, jogging, or skating. On the contrary, music may also create a hazardous, more dangerous outdoor workout environment as it could impair your ability to hear and recognize things such as

  • Get out of the muck!

    Have you heard the one about the businessman who, while walking to work one day, decided to take a shortcut across a cow pasture? After hopping a barbed wire fence, the man began his trek across the field. Unfortunately, he soon caught the attention of an enormous bull off in the distance. The bull

  • Don't Forget to Laugh - It Could Save Your Life!

    I take my role as father very seriously. Being a good father isn't enough for me. I want to be the best father I can be because my children deserve nothing less. I want them to be successful, confident and independent thinkers...ready for anything that may come their way. So one day I decided to

  • Why is it called President's Day?

    President's Day goes by with little notice, except for some schools and federal employees getting the day off. Supermarkets and retail stores advertise President's Day sales hoping to draw in those lucky enough to have the day off. However, do you know what the legal name for the holiday is, how it

  • "Red Tails" movie review

    I was fortunate enough to see the recent movie release, "Red Tails," a history of the Tuskegee Airmen. Their story is one I believe every American should know. "Red Tails" documents how African Americans, who were part of the U.S. Army Air Forces "Tuskegee Experiment" in the deep south, were

  • Adjusting your words can adjust your life

    One of the most amazing ways for us to live a positive and fruitful life is to understand the power of our words. Here's a short story that I've heard to explain this truth. A group of frogs was traveling through the woods, and two of them fell into a deep pit. All the other frogs gathered around

  • Workplace fires can be prevented

    A cigarette can incinerate a forest, a match can contribute to millions of dollars in property damage, and a faulty power strip or extension cord can easily bring down a large building. It goes to show that something small and overlooked can be potentially dangerous, and in some cases, deadly. In

  • Time to pass the baton in my Air Force career relay

    "Write about what?" I ask. "Write about anything," she re-plies. When I determine she is serious, my initial annoyance turns into exhilaration! Oh, the possibilities! I'm an untouchable...with one foot out the door and the other on a banana peel; I can say whatever I want with little fear of

  • A Patient Perspective

    This New Year I've decided that my resolution will be to work on my patience. I hate to admit it but I think God agrees. After all, he never ceases to offer me so many opportunities to improve it, like supermarket checkout lines, doctor's offices, and of course, L.A. traffic--I recently read a