airport | airport
Sep.18.2012
A great honour for any author (sure, he was also President of the country - but still). I hope there will be a bookstore in this section of the airport, with many books by many Czech authors [hint]. And also a nice international array [hint again].
Of course, it would have also been great to...
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Sep.18.2012
This post contains coarse language. I drew the cartoon below a couple of months ago. In Korea last week, it was published in my new book Test Your English. (That link goes to a Korean website. Click here to see that book's Redroom page). However this week I am seeing the same kind of image in my...
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Sep.08.2011
Post 9/11, Is Coming to America Still Worth the Journey?
New America Media, First Person, Andrew Lam, Posted: Sep 08, 2011
EDITOR'S NOTE: Shortly after September 11, 2001, New America Media editor and author Andrew Lam received a letter from his cousin in Vietnam, posing a...
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Aug.19.2011
He unlocked the bathroom door and stepped out, treating the stewardess to a smile of manic proportions.
“Amazing. Really.” he told her, dirty looks and all.
Back in his seat, he squinted at the waters of the San Francisco Bay, worrying that they looked altogether a bit too close. Brain racing...
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Jan.03.2011
She seemed light as a feather. Tiny, in fact. I’d never thought of her as tiny. But, here on the curb of Nashville International Airport, as I embraced her and whispered, “I love you,” my wife was much smaller than I remembered. In the last four months, we hadn’t shared many hugs. Tears, by the...
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Sep.01.2010
Operations at the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport began to return to normal after a two day partial shutdown due to hurricane Earl.The return to normal was accompanied by a barrage of complaints about the manner in which the airport authority handled the emergency.Activity at the main...
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Jul.08.2010
I was walking through the airport in Milwaukee during a layover and the shoe shine guy calls out to me, “Can’t close a deal with them dirty heals. Only takes 5 minutes.”
I wanted to grab a bite. So I kept walking.
After eating I walked back past the stand and his partner calls out, “Can’t be at...
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Jul.08.2010
If I ran a brick and mortar store I would have 2 concerns.
Get people to the store.
Get people to stay and keep buying.
In women’s clothing stores I think there should be a room off to the side that has a pinball machine and a Wii. Dads and kids can go in there while Moms shop. More time to shop...
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Jan.25.2010
I left behind my jacket and it was too late to look back. The boarding had been announced a while ago and in my state of not-quite-anywhere, I picked up what was in front of me and walked towards the aircraft. I felt the urge to put my hands in my pockets and found there were no pockets; it meant...
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Aug.19.2009
This New York Times articlemade me wish I were heading through Heathrow this week, not just to visit London but to check out the airport’s writer-in-residence: author Alain de Botton, (How Proust Can Change Your Life and The Art of Travel).
As the Times reports, the gig was orchestrated by Heathrow...
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