A Quiet, Retiring Dog
How heart-warming when a professional dog can retire before she’s blown up. So many of us just settle for Medicare. After an eight-year career as a bomb-detecting dog at Chicago’s O’Hare and Midway airports, Lacy, […]
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Homeland Security Thinks I’m Dangerous?
I am a 70-year-old, chubby half-Italian woman who still feels awful about a handful of mice whose deaths she caused years ago. If I accidentally bump into someone, I apologize over and over, as if […]
The Missing Black Shoe
It never fails that if there is a pat down to be done at airport security, I will get it. These pat downs don’t upset me, and I don’t feel the need to go to […]
The Pat Down
This week, I got my first pat down by the TSA at Philadelphia International Airport. I walked through the metal detectors and was ready to grab my belongings from the scanned bins when a female […]