What IWASM Has Done for Me September 1, 2023, the International Women’s Air & Space Museum named me the 2023 recipient of their Lifetime Achievement Award. The second woman on whom they have bestowed this honor, I follow in the footsteps of Caroline “Connie” Luhta, the recipient of IWASM’s first Lifetime Achievement Award – in…
THANK YOU IWASM FOR THIS AMAZING HONOR On September 1, the International Women’s Air and Space Museum (IWASM) in Cleveland, Ohio, is honoring yours truly with their Lifetime Achievement Award. And I have to say, my 37-year journey with IWASM has been an incredible one. In 1986, I was the editor of the twice-weekly Centerville-Bellbrook Times, Centerville,…
JEAN LANDIS WASP PILOT, 2,500 MILES … LONG BEACH TO NEWARK IN A P-51 Presenting: My twelfth book about the WAFS and WASP – the American women pilots who flew for the U.S. Army Air Forces in World War II. Jean Landis WASP Pilot is not only my twelfth book, it is #5 in my Young-Adult-Readers-focused series “The WAFS and WASP of…
Two weeks ago in this blog, I talked about my biography, Finding Dorothy Scott: Letters of a WASP Pilot,winner of the 2016 Sarton Women’s Book Award from Story Circle Network. Dorothy’s story would be my topic when I spoke April 11that Literary Lubbock, sponsored by Texas Tech University Press. TTUP published Dorothy’s incredible story. Like…
Minnesota’s Twin Cities were NOT the frozen north that I expected when I booked my flight for March 26. “Should I wear my boots?” I asked my friend, Chase, who picked me up at the airport and with whom I stayed the first night. She assured me that I didn’t need them. I was in…
Women In Aviation conference, Long Beach, California, Wednesday, March 13: — While Denver was in the clutches of a blizzard, the four Rickmans, in full sunshine, rode a free downtown Long Beach shuttle to the Aquarium of the Pacific. This was attraction number one! Grandson Daniel is a shark enthusiast. Petting live sharks was THE…
Denver was in the bullseye of a blizzard predicted to hit the eastern slope of Colorado Wednesday morning, March 13. Midnight, Monday night, I was on the phone with Southwest Airlines. My daughter-in-law, two grandkids and I were booked to fly out of Denver at noon, Wednesday. We were on our way to attend the…
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