Lynn Carnes

We have more to be grateful for than we can imagine. Let’s start with running water. Watch a movie set 200 years ago and you will be reminded that every bedroom was equipped with a bowl and a pitcher. Why? Because that’s how one took care of water needs in the old days. I’m a

I know how much money I have. (Well, sort of, given market swings!) I don’t know how much time I have. Looking at time as my most valuable resource is not a new idea to me. However, it popped up somewhere in my social media feed in the last week, just as I was having

Learning to fly has brought me a new appreciation of the role of discipline as a critical mental (or invisible) tool. For the last twenty years, I’ve been working to unleash my creativity. Frankly, I have enjoyed leaving behind the rules and parameters of the accounting and banking worlds that formed my early career. Suddenly

I was reminded again today of the power of changing my perspective. As my flight instructor and I were preparing to get in the airplane for multiple touch and go landings, she asked me about my seat height. Suddenly, I was taken back to our very first flight, when she suggested cranking it as high

This week, the progression of my flying lessons began with more advanced maneuvers. The first one in this phase was “steep turns”. As we took off from the Asheville Airport and headed for the practice area just west of Lake Lure, I was feeling moderately confident that steep turns would be no big deal. However,