According to Wikipedia, "wanderlust is a strong desire for or impulse to wander or travel and explore the world." I suspect that if you're reading the Travel Section of The Huffington Post, you are likely to have at least a mild case of this condition. Did you ever wonder where...

Did you ever imagine a yacht on wheels? Well, my father did, though now you see such things on our roads and highways all the time. We call them "RV's." Along with his many achievements in his remarkable life, my father invented the first luxury RV.

This is the story...

On March 6, John C. Pistole, administrator for the Transportation Security Administration, announced that beginning on April 25, small pocket knives, souvenir baseball bats, golf clubs, lacrosse and hockey sticks, pool cues and ski poles will once more be allowed in airline cabins, because these things will provide little threat...

I love a good story. I especially love a good story if it's true. And most of all, I love a good story if it's true, and it's about my family. History comes alive for me when I can imagine my own relatives living in different times and places, connected...

As a Pan Am flight attendant who traveled often to Iran in the 1960s and 1970s -- almost up until our very last emergency evacuation flights from Tehran -- I was transfixed by the film Argo, transported back in time with a strong feeling of déjà vu. The sights, the...

As a young girl, I spent hours poring over the family scrapbooks that my mother had begun to assemble. For the next 60 years, she lovingly put together photographs and newspaper clippings along with her own memoirs and family stories. Most of the albums cover the end of the 19th...

It was the summer of 1968. The Vietnam War was at its height, and Pan Am had been flying "R & R" flights in and out of the war zone. Wounded soldiers were taken to hospitals in nearby Guam and Manila. We stewardesses felt a strong obligation, whenever we could,...

In September, I was honored to be the keynote speaker for the 43rd Annual Convention of World Wings International, the philanthropic organization of former Pan Am flight attendants, in Portland, Ore. Despite my initial nervousness (see my earlier blog, "Confessions of a Psychoanalyst: Performance Anxiety and the Dread of Shame"),...

My mother died in October at the age of 96. Though it was at the end of a long and protracted illness, the impact of her death was still profound on my brother, sister, and myself. Like many adult children, we grieved the loss of that connection. In her wisdom,...

The recent very public emotional meltdown of a JetBlue pilot -- just weeks after an American Airlines flight attendant broke down in front of passengers waiting for take-off -- has many people wondering about the psychological health of pilots and flight attendants. What is going on with the employees...

"After this, nothing happened."
(Plenty Coups, the last great chief of the Crow
Nation, on the disappearance of the buffalo)

On December 4th of this year, former Pan Am employees all over the world sadly acknowledged the twentieth anniversary of the death of their beloved company....

When my mother died two weeks ago, I turned to writing to make sense of it all. I was asking myself, "Does this mean that I don't have a Mommy anymore?" I wasn't expecting to find my answer so quickly, and I'm hoping I can give solace to others who...

There is exciting new hope on the horizon for the treatment of combat-related trauma, and I feel that I have had a front-row seat in watching this ground-breaking and hopeful solution to one of our country's most heart-breaking problems -- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in the military. Let me...

As a writer, psychoanalyst and stewardess for Pan Am for twenty years, I've shared many personal feelings about my life in my blogs. My reason for doing this has never been so that you, the reader, will know about me. My goal has been to encourage you to think about...

I'm posting a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio interview that I did with Brent Bambury about my reaction to the new ABC series Pan Am, on Sunday nights at 10:00 P.M. My responses are based on the advertising I had seen on TV, on billboards, and in magazines, before I had...

As a former Pan Am stewardess from 1965 to 1986, I have eagerly -- yet ambivalently -- awaited tonight's debut of the new ABC series, Pan Am, on Sunday nights at 10:00 P.M. My ambivalence is a mixture of feelings of hope and dread.

My fervent wish has been that...

On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, I called my office, as I usually do, as soon as I woke up. There were 14 new messages from my psychotherapy patients since the night before, which was very unusual. As I listened to each one, they were all similar: "Don't worry...

On September 25 at 10:00 P.M., ABC unveils a new television series, Pan Am, which is meant to depict the lives of Pan Am stewardesses in the 1960s. I can assure the network that former Pan Am'ers will be watching en masse in hopes that the writers will be...

At the beginning of this series, I promised to explain why Pan American World Airways employees felt the world was theirs. The answer is simple: Pan Am was more than a mere company. We were a family -- a family that worked and played together all over the globe...

When last we met on The Huffington Post, two young couples -- the Lindberghs and the Trippes -- were in a crisis. A life and death crisis.

There they all were in the Sikorsky-38, an amphibian, attempting to land in Barranquila, Columbia in 1929. The problem...