Random Thoughts - The BlogHer'13 Edition
Traveling to Chicago from Tucson is easy, for the most part. Tucson International Airport (you can fly to Mexico) is teeny and I didn't have to worry about parking because TBG dropped me off at the door. I checked my bag, for free, at the Southwest counter; there was no line and I was through security ten minutes after I left my sweetie at the sliding glass doors. The TSA agents were friendly, and I must have been walking very well because no one offered me a loaner cane to help me step through the x-ray machine. And then, I saw her. A slim, black, woman with a maternity TSA uniform. I was not allowed to photograph her, for security reasons, I guess, but that couldn't spoil my joy. There was a tie in the back of the blouse, to allow for her ever expanding girth. Her pants were stretchy. TSA provided it all. I am so in love with my government right now. What a change from 1951, when G'ma was forced to resign from the NYC Public School system because I wa...