How I got Into Flying Helicopters

Today I'm at "Reading at the Beach" talking about how I became a helicopter pilot. Here's an excerpt:

"The Army trained me as a medic and an EMT (Emergency Medical Technician). I was not a good soldier...but I loved being a paramedic. Where I responded to Army 'regiment' with near-distain, what I was trained for had the opposite effect: I liked splinting a broken leg. Inserting an IV. Dressing a sucking chest wound. One weekend a month I was a grunt soldier and a token medic. But for two weeks in the summer I was a soldier medic. And during our two-week training of my third year in the Guard, I took part in a mock battlefield exercise that changed my life..."

Read more here!

Won the Scholarship - Must Fly

Wow. A double-whammy day (and I mean that in a good way). First the Indie Awards, and then a letter from the Minnesota 99s - a women pilot organization - telling me I'd won a scholarship toward flight training!

And here I had just about decided my plate was FULL - no room for anything else - and that flying would have to wait!

So perhaps this is divine intervention? Or perhaps it's simply craziness... but I am NOT one to squander opportunity! (It might, however, have to wait until fall...)