Musings of a Frequent Flying Scientist

Tag: writing

  • Ended (Dark Side Thursday)

    For Andy Townend’s Dark Side Thursday. Andy has provided an outlet for our dark sides. I wrote this a few weeks ago (on a plane, of course!) but I thought it was too dark to share. I haven’t ever written anything like it. I would usually put this summary at the bottom of my post…

  • Momentarily Terrified

    There’s a constant drone in an airplane. If you remove your headphones, you can listen to it. But inevitably you will stop hearing it. Until there’s a change in the frequency, the timbre of the sound. Then there’s that feeling in your tummy. Why did the sound change? You steal a few furtive glances at the…

  • Little Red Sweater

    As we strolled through the park hand-in-hand, I turned to my beautiful wife and silently thanked the heavens for having her by my side. Then I thought, why should I keep this to myself? “Honey, thank you for being you, I don’t know what I would do without you.”  She beamed at me and blushed…

  • Free Your Mind, and the Rest Will Follow

    There was music playing, she could feel it, but her mind wasn’t ready to understand the words. She could just feel the beat, it pulsed in her head. She closed her eyes and just let it wash over her. She let everything wash over her. What now? What would she do? He’s gone, he’s not…