Between Us: An Open Letter to the Disney Channel

Reblogged from Life Inspired: Dear Disney Channel Executives, My daughter Journey has recently become a fan of the Disney Channel.  She just turned 7, she has officially outgrown Nick Jr. and since Nick seems to show SpongeBob all day, she has moved over to the Disney channel.  At first, she was pretty much only watching […]

I usually take …

I usually take a walk after breakfast, write for three hours, have lunch and read in the afternoon. Demons don’t like fresh air – they prefer it if you stay in bed with cold feet; for a person who is as chaotic as me, who struggles to be in control, it is an absolute necessity […]

Swiss Air

We’ve all been there

I’m sorry, this bag is too big or heavy to fit in our overhead compartment, we’ll need to gate check it

To which of course any reasonable traveler responds

Like fuck you are

And then of course the airline wins anyway because that’s how the world works. Usually following this gate-check extravaganza come broken luggage handles, damage to the frame and wheels, scuff marks, late delivery, your bag put on the wrong plane and on and on ad infinitum. These things have all happened to me, most of them in the past couple years. I no longer trust airlines with my bags.