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Of all our bloggers, I am probably the oldest, but I don’t feel my age. I was born in 1952, just a couple of blocks from the Santa Fe Railway’s main transcontinental line in Clovis, New Mexico to an airline father, so transportation (planes and trains) got in my blood at an early age. As a child, my fondest memories are spending days at work with my dad on the ramp in Amarillo, Texas and on the old observation deck at Dallas Love Field. After graduating from Southern Methodist University in Dallas as a journalism major, I got my first airline job with Delta in 1976. During my time at Delta, I worked at Dallas/Fort Worth (during three separate occasions), Detroit, Oakland, Atlanta (at the old terminal), Portland, Oregon, Paris Orly, and Dayton, Ohio. My 18½ years with Delta were split between ramp/operations and ticket counter/gates.


I joined Southwest (thankfully!) in 1995, as a Reservations Sales Agent, but most of the time I have been in the communications group in the Executive Office. I correspond with our Customers on a wide variety of topics, but I also get to work on different projects like this blog. My duties also include proofing press releases, departmental newsletters, and proofing our Employee magazine, LUVLines. In addition, I am a freelance author for Airways magazine. (Yeah, transportation really is in my blood.)



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  Thoughts on Independence Day by the Blog Team

 

Once again this year, we want to share the Independence Day plans of our Blog Team.  As you can see, they will be attending a wide variety of events, and my guess is that this pretty well tracks those of you reading the blog.

Paula Berg, our Blog Girl tells us:  “I'll be covering our dog's ears to protect him from the sound of fireworks!”



Categories: Southwest Culture

Jul 03, 2008




  I've Looked at Fireworks From Both Sides Now

  Dear Anonymous, given your obvious intellect, I trust--yet fear, that your literary criticism must be directed at me because Steve's post is obviously worthy of acclaim. A chaste and humbled Blog Boy here.

Do you know that song that everybody erroneously thinks the name is I’ve Looked at Clouds and that Judy Collins wrote? I’ve been humming that song today—which is really named Both Sides Now and was written by Joni Mitchell—as I recorded this episode of Red Belly Radio. Why you may ask?

Categories: Uncategorized

Jul 02, 2008




  I've Looked at Fireworks From Both Sides Now

  Hey Steve, Your post reminded me that it's life's illusions I recall and that I really don't know life at all. Seriously (just for a minute), I have seen both sides of fireworks, and it is a unique experience from the air. It kind of reminds me of NASA video from the Shuttle and the Space Station that's shows thunderstorms and lightning from above. Brian Oh BTW, I can find Comal County on the map, but not the river. Also, the State of Oregon claims that the D River in Lincoln City is the world's shortest at 440 feet, or 120 feet at extreme high tide. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D_River or http://www.oregonstateparks.org/park_214.php

Do you know that song that everybody erroneously thinks the name is I’ve Looked at Clouds and that Judy Collins wrote? I’ve been humming that song today—which is really named Both Sides Now and was written by Joni Mitchell—as I recorded this episode of Red Belly Radio. Why you may ask?

Categories: Uncategorized

Jul 02, 2008




  Dallas Love Field Time Lapse Video

  Christi I probably parked at 0:04 in the video, but it would have been out of sight to the left of the screen. I LUV seeing the 30-second turn toward the end of the video.

Our star video blogger, Bob Hurst, created this awesome time-lapsed video of our home base here at Dallas Love Field Airport - we're fast, but obviously not this fast! 



Categories: Airports

Jul 01, 2008




  OH...IO

  Hey Ashley Hows the fishing in THE Olentangy River? Brian

I remember the day I first learned The Columbus, Ohio was a great place!  It was my first day of a college internship when my supervisor yelled “O…H…!” on our way to drop off a package at FedEx.  I, of course, asked if the box was too heavy and if he needed me to help carry it.  He looked at me and with as much passion as any loyal Buckeye fan (I now know this) and said

Categories: Working at Southwest

Jun 27, 2008





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