by John G. Self | Oct 18, 2013 | Stories
You can label this blog travel irony. After months and months of waiting for the TSA to work its magic for pre-screening clearance I got two surprises Tuesday afternoon as I prepared to enter the security line at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. Months earlier...
by John G. Self | Sep 13, 2013 | Stories
Dan was bone tired. He had never felt this tired before. His rigorous work and travel schedule had taken its toll. He was way beyond pretending everything was OK because it wasn’t and he knew it. Dan, a senior executive for a large regional healthcare consultancy,...
by John G. Self | Aug 16, 2013 | Stories
It is Thursday night. I am in San Francisco waiting for my flight to Dallas. This is the last leg of a series of trips that began on May 25. During that time I have spent 95 percent of my time away from my headquarters in Dallas, working on new projects,...
by John G. Self | Feb 15, 2013 | Stories
It is 5 AM. I am in the gym. I am alone. Thank goodness. This is not a pretty site, a gentleman of a certain age who travels extensively—a nice word for the current grammatically incorrect but popular phrase ‘way much’—and who now resorts to sweating before dawn so...
by John G. Self | Aug 1, 2012 | Stories
I love books—for their content and for the conversations that their subject matter, provocative titles, or book covers can generate on an airplane or train. I love good conversation and meeting new people. My family and friends laughingly (and correctly) say that I...
