Happy Mothers Day
As an airline pilot specific holidays are so interesting to me. Nothing in particular makes most of these days special except that...
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panorthrup8
Mar 10
The lost suitcase life...
My mom put me on Ritalin when I was a child. I was always thinking, always plotting, always creating, always doing. As a child, this...
panorthrup8
Feb 26
The Hollywood (Hlywd)1
Ahhhhh......the worlds we know nothing about........the mystery is super cool but equally cool is being the person who gets to see behind...
panorthrup8
Feb 11
God Always wins
Ahhh life.....we blink and almost 3 months has gone by. I started on this blog post right after Thanksgiving and there it sits on my...
panorthrup8
Oct 31, 2023
Is this an airport or a casino?
I have talked to many employed with the airlines. Many retire from other jobs and decide to work for the airlines for the travel benefits....
Patricia Northrup
Oct 17, 2023
From the flight deck
As most of you know my life was turned upside down a year and a half ago, and it has taken me that long to get my head and heart wrapped aro
Patricia Northrup
Apr 7, 2020
Slow food. Rich Life Part 3
Breakfast was amazing. These unsweet crepes are quite delicious and called M'smmen. They have a very mild cream cheese and honey that you...
Patricia Northrup
Mar 28, 2020
Slow food. Rich Life Part 2
So back to Bob, I mean Alastair. He told Linda and I a crazy story of arriving in the Medina and being locked out of his hotel for at...
Patricia Northrup
Mar 21, 2020
Slow food. Rich Life Part 1
This is my first blog from Morocco. Today we sit in our resort the J’nane Tamsna eating by ourselves in our rooms and waiting our return...
Patricia Northrup
Feb 11, 2020
POWER
Power… I have never had so much power at the tip of my fingers as I do as a Captain for American Airlines. It is an extremely seductive...
Patricia Northrup
Jan 3, 2020
Boulevard of Green Lights
I have never lived a “normal” life…….but what is normal? It is the status quo of the past? Is it what people are doing now? Is it what...
Patricia Northrup
Dec 30, 2019
A Christmas Miracle
Sometimes it is the smallest things that touch our hearts and create a moment that we know we will remember. A small, very small...
Patricia Northrup
Dec 23, 2019
Leadership 401
Flying has been very benign lately so I have been working on this post for a while now. At the same time, I have been noticing on...
Patricia Northrup
Dec 5, 2019
The Dark and Stormy Night…..Part 2
Where were we? Oh, my screens just reappeared for the second time. This is where I start thinking from the hearing backward. “So how...
Patricia Northrup
Dec 2, 2019
The Dark and Stormy Night…..Part 1
“Just another one of those days” means something totally different at 35,000 feet than it does on your living room couch. Settle in…this...
Patricia Northrup
Nov 25, 2019
SELECTIVE FATIGUE
Getting older, I rarely sleep though the night anymore……it was about 2:20 am and I woke up, I noticed that my phone was face down but the...
Patricia Northrup
Nov 19, 2019
RECREATIONAL OUTRAGE
ALOHA!!! Life has smiled on you when you realize that you are telling people that your paid job is taking you to one of the most...
Patricia Northrup
Nov 18, 2019
Trip number 3 as a new Captain
I am finally feeling comfortable in my new seat. From the first flight little things would plague me. There was always something that...
Patricia Northrup
Nov 6, 2019
from the flight deck
It is a beautiful day at Flight Level 320. Even though I don’t write these blogs while I am flying, the hours across the blue skies of...
Patricia Northrup
Jul 4, 2014
The Last
I am sorry I have not blogged in so long. 8 days to be exact. It has been a hard 8 days. We have been so busy trying to execute the...
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