I’ve decided it’s time for something new. As most of you probably know, just before Christmas I decided to take some time off – not just from The Pilot Wife Life, but from social media (and all outside activity and distraction) as a whole. The last few months have been riddled with the stresses of […]
Not so long ago, my BFF and I decided to visit a local antique store as our designated girl’s day out adventure. These periodic outings together help me recenter and keep me [mostly] sane in all of this aviation insanity! We grabbed a couple of Twix lattes from our favorite coffee haunt and headed eagerly
Five Things Pilot Wives Should Never Apologize For Read More »
Life on the road as an airline pilot sounds sexy and fun – while we, the spouses, are left behind to do the boring, mundane things of life. We often fantasize (incorrectly so, in most cases) that they have the better lot in this life and that we got the short end of the aviation
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My husband rocks my world. Every. Single Day. He is my best friend, my lover, my husband, my rock, my pilot, my forever. I’m not ashamed to proclaim it loud and proud! We currently abide in a time and culture in which it, quite simply, isn’t ‘cool’ to love your spouse anymore. The socially acceptable
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No matter where you are on this great big planet, you can gaze up at the clear night sky and see the stars twinkling above. And whoever you are, whatever you believe, wherever you originate from, if you slow down and take a moment to intentionally marvel at the vastness of the heavens, it’s truly
Like a Diamond in the Sky Read More »
There’s no doubt that you have all already heard about the crazy events that transpired surrounding flight 1380 yesterday. I will skip the terrifying details because you can read them on a million different other sites already. What I want to focus on instead is the identity of the pilot who safely brought home a
Super-SHE-ro, Captain Tammie Jo Shults, We Salute You Read More »
Being a pilot wife is…well, unique. It’s feeling like you live two completely separate, unrelated lives – the one when your husband is home and the one when he’s not – and trying to find some kind of balance between the chaos of the two. It’s watching your husband pack everything he owns into his