Can Imagination Bring Out the Real You?
VR in THE VOID Presents New Sensations, Thoughts, Actions — Was That a Game or the Real Me? Until last month, my virtual reality (VR) headset experiences were fantastic and the immersion impressive: I cruised Mars, flew to the Moon, swam with whales in the seas (on earth), and plied a wand to slice away […]
How to Be the Best Leader for the 2nd Space Age: Lessons on Leadership I Learned from Flying
A Letter to Millennials The world watched a grainy TV image relayed back to Earth from about 250,000 miles away: The first human was slowly descending a spacecraft ladder to step onto another world. It would be referred to forevermore as “one small step” and is one of most remarkable leaps in the history of […]
Discovering Porches: Chautauqua
One of the things I love best is to hear stories about what inspires other people, what motivates them, and how their lives have changed. Very often they’ve also changed the lives of others too. This summer I was invited to Chautauqua as a speaker and guest to offer my story of transformation. But I […]
Wisdom in the Mountains
These days my mind seems to wander always to my dissertation. There isn’t a moment when I’m not mulling over the challenges of isolation that astronauts will face on long duration space flights. I am working on a solution to demonstrate how a new AI (Artificial Intelligence) can be effective to improve their connectedness with […]
The Perfect Mother’s Day
Last weekend was Mother’s Day. My daughter, Annie, and I decided to spend it together do something we loved: we went to the Sierra to go fly-fishing. Since she was a little girl, we have been fond of the ‘Range of Light’ mountain range. It was dubbed this by conservationist John Muir for the way […]
Getting Out of My Comfort Zone
To all my readers, it is not a shock to hear me say that the best experiences of my life have come to me when I left my comfort zone. When I was a “stay at home mom” and I decided to take flying lessons I knew there’d be some uneasiness but the joy of […]
Preparing for Far and Away
A Risk that cannot be ignored One of the most significant health risks facing humankind is not a physical danger but an emotional one. It’s likely you have all experienced this risk at some point in your life. The risk is loneliness. While it is prevalent in our societies on Earth, nowhere is loneliness more […]
The Power of Play to Create the Next 100,000 Hours
In our generation, time dedicated to work will amount to about 100,000 hours, hours that make up about 48 years of work. These hours define our lives and often translate into more than an income. During that time we are ‘at work’ we find out about ourselves: what we value, who we want to work […]
A Dream Realized
As a pilot and presently a doctoral student, I have long been fascinated by space. Currently, I am researching issues on the impact of isolation on long-duration space flights and new tools to address isolation’s effects. There are many challenges astronauts face when trying to solve the ultimate question: Are we alone in the universe? […]