Barbi Walker-Walsh
A commercial airplane gliding through a clear blue sky

Flight Attendant · Journalist · Novelist

Forty years
in the air.

Flying since February 1986, and still flying. A journalism degree from ASU’s Cronkite School, a master’s from NYU, and twenty years of reporting written between trips. Now writing novels.

Selected essays

Oversharing

2018

As a flight attendant, I get to see my share of quirky behaviors (yeah I’m talking about you guy, the one walking around the cabin in your sock feet, …

LIKE A POLAROID PICTURE

2017

Making memories MAKE YOUR FAMILY VACATION MEMORIES LAST Summer is coming to a close, and as school ramps up, those sweet, fun m…

NASA’S MAVEN Spacecraft Celebrates One Mars Year of Science

The New Year in Observance: 2016 Starts Now

2016

**LONDON AND THE NEW YEAR 2016** I was tired when we arrived at the hotel today. I’ve been off work for the last three weeks and it’s been wonderful a…

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The Flawed Writer

2015

Nearly a year ago, with fresh and renewed enthusiasm I started back into the world as a journalist, as a blogger as a writer, the deepest of my passio…