I haven’t done a column for quite a while about TSA Security Lines at airports. It’s not that I am finding less to bitch about. Au contraire as the snail eaters would gutturally say. It’s just that I’ve been fortunate enough to have not been traveling for the past few months and just recently...
Full disclosure; I’m on the sunny-side of my late-60s and have been traveling steadily for probably 50 of those years. Consequently I have seen the inside of hundreds, if not thousands of hotel rooms. Some are memorable; most are not. They generally carry a common theme: an extra roll of toilet paper in addition...
A recent CSI television show had a unique twist to it; there were three bodies…but four brains. Granted, the numbers didn’t add up but without boring you describing the rest of the plot, suffice it to say that I pondered who that other brain might belong to and I learned this morning who could...
Ever since I was a young boy (I played the silver ball), I was told to find something I like to do…and do it well. Obviously I didn’t heed this advice because I now make my living as a journalist. Some have taken it, however. Case in point is Ron “The Hedgehog” Jeremy, legendary...
I love this time of the year, with all the decorations, goodwill and sales. No matter where you travel in this world it takes on a common theme. Well…maybe not in places like Southern California or South Florida. I still remember the year I lived in Miami and my (then) girlfriend called me on...
Almost 50 years ago my parents dragged me to Miami, Florida, after I graduated high school because they always wanted to live there. I was perfectly content to stay in my beloved home state of Indiana, primarily because my true love at the time was there and we wanted to someday get married. She...
A new milestone was recently reached with the first revenue flight of Boeing’s much-heralded — and long-overdue — 787. It was flown by All Nippon Airlines (ANA), from Tokyo to Hong Kong. It was comprised mostly of aviation journalists and a select group of paying passengers. (Being a journalist myself I think I’m pretty...
It’s going to take more than a few days to dig out of the delays stacking up from the freak snow storm that has buried the Northeast. But airline officials say flights will be returning to normal in New York today and then playing catch up from there. The delays and cancellations, however, can...
As regular readers of my columns know I’m sickened by a lot of things. Some I don’t talk about because they’re too painful, like the escalating cost of Dairy Queens, the coarseness of toilet paper in France and the price of eggs in China (not worth the wear and tear in a hen’s ass)....
God (or Allah, Jesus, Fred or whomever you worship) has given those of us on earth an abundance of beauty. There’s the Grand Canyon, Victoria Falls, the Mighty Alps, Santa’s Workshop at the North Pole and The Cottontail Ranch, just to name a few. But all of his (or her, if you prefer) wonders...
