I suppose sitting here in Chicago for nearly four days now, I should have updated this blog sooner. No doubt many of you recieved an e-mail from Bethany on Tuesday evening about my where abouts and my safety. As I am very thankful and happy to report, I am fine. I am safe. And I am stuck in Chicago. We landed in Chicago at 4:30am CST on Tuesday morning. I have been here since. Good news is though, I am now scheduled to leave tomorrow morning at 8:24am CST. I will be arriving in San Jose at about 10:45am PDT. The sad news is, I will not be able to return home to Las Vegas for sometime. Maybe not before September 27. I was scheduled to be home today and tomorrow, and then I have another trip Saturday through Monday with a Reno and Las Vegas layover. My Las Vegas layover has already been canceled, and I am now laying over in Los Angeles instead. I am pretty much flying nonstop from that point forward until September 27.

I know that for many, if not all, the events of the past few days have simply not yet set in. I know they haven't for me. I lost 17 of my colleagues in the most tragic and unimaginable events. That, still, has not sunk in. Tomorrow, as stated above, I will be returning to San Jose. Although I am not afraid to fly, I am nervous. And although I feel I am safe, there is uncertainty. Perhaps what upsets me, too, is the frequency of which I fly in and out of New York and Boston on the very aircraft that were involved. It hits me all too closely: my airline, my routes, and my colleagues. I will be in New York a few times later this month, and I am sure there is an emotion waiting for me there I have yet to experience. This is an important reminder to all of us, that healing takes time and occurs in steps. I am confident that I, my colleagues, and my friends and family will move on. Although our history and our hearts have changed forever, we are Americans. Let us not let our loss stand for nothing, but stand to show the world we are indeed a united country, one nation, indivisible.