How do airlines keep passengers safe during a pandemic when face masks have become the symbolic defining line in a growing battle between civil liberties…
A friend, somebody I know and trust, someone who actually took my son to the beach today, has come up with a way…
Like clockwork every year, a journalist will contact me to ask the same question I’ve been asked by a dozen journalists before him: if I…
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If you’re bored at home with nothing to do because of everything that’s happening in the world at the moment, and you haven’t read my…
You’ve probably heard people say, Don’t feed the Trolls! This was very good advice…5 years ago. Trolls have evolved. They’re very hungry. They don’t care…
The Conversation – a BBC World Service radio show that brings together two women from different parts of the world to talk about a shared experience…
Before September 2016, I didn’t think that much about fashion. I enjoyed looking nice, but I didn’t do a lot of shopping because I didn’t…
If it’s not a Boeing, I’m not going. That’s a phrase I’ve heard often over the course of my 20-plus career as a flight attendant…
What does Bill Clinton’s sex life have in common with dead people? I’ll get to that in a moment. First, a little bit about me.…
There’s a school that suspends kids for wearing deodorant,” said my 12-year-old son on the way to school one morning. “It was on a YouTube…
Initially, the Harvard Flight Attendant Health Study set out to learn how flame retardants in the home affect the endocrine system. Who better to study than…
Dear Kamala Harris, I’d like to say thank you. Thank you for caring about people, all people, regardless of race, age, gender, social status or…
To those who’ve been following the uniform crisis over the last year, I want to say thank you for your support. You’ll never know how…
Welcome to the club nobody wants to be a part of. That’s how we greet newbies who join our support group for American Airlines employees who’ve had reactions to toxic chemicals…
An AirAsia plane “plummeted” from the sky, and in every news report I read, passengers complained that flight attendants panicked. I’ve been a flight attendant…
I’m a flight attendant. My job is to make sure passengers get from point A to point B as safely as possible, which is…
“YOU HATE SEX, DIRTY DIRTY SEX…” That’s what a stranger tweeted to me out of the blue last year. I remember staring at the computer…
On Friday nights in Dallas, when I was in high school, I liked to go to free concerts in the West End. My friends…