by Kelly Monaghan, CTC
Wednesday June 10, 2015

Are you the sort who talks back to the TV news? Or comments loudly to no one in particular as you take issue with something in the newspaper? Me too.

This sort of thing accomplishes nothing, beside annoying my wife, but I took things a step further when I read a review by Barbara Ehrenreich of "Rise of the Robots" and "Shadow Work" in the New York Times Book Review. I was brought up short by this sentence: "Booking travel reservations is now a D.I.Y. task; the travel agents have disappeared."

This time, after a loud harrumph!, I took electronic pen to hand and fired off a letter to the editor of the Book Review. Thinking that I'd accomplished nothing besides getting something off my…

XL Airways offers seasonal scheduled service between New York’s JFK airport, San Francisco, and Miami to Paris’s Charles de Gaulle airport. With an emphasis on affordable fares and good service, XL Airways France whisks passengers to their destination aboard Airbus A330 jets. The airline’s route network extends to leisure destinations. From Paris, XL Airways France serves long-haul flights to the Dominican Republic, French Caribbean, Mexico, and the Indian Ocean (also served from Marseille). The airline…

Years ago (many years ago) I learned how to fly single engine airplanes, and there are three lessons I learned that will serve me forever.

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