"My first blanket and pillow set is still a source of pride and joy for me." I grew up watching my mother crochet and I was fascinated. Around the impressionable age of 5, I decided that I wanted to learn. That mother-daughter bonding experiment did not go as expected. It was a real fiasco—the teaching part that is. Mom was extremely talented but patient she was not. Her stint as a teacher lasted less than 24-hours with yarn and needle gracing the trash can. In my early t

"... the frequency of which travel blankets are laundered is somewhere between 5 to 30 days." Personally, I've always opted to bring my own travel blanket, wear extra layers or suffer through the brunt of the cold instead of using the proffered airline blanket or pillow—and that was before I started on this journey. We all want to avoid getting the sniffles during our next flight. It's common to see passengers pull out their disinfectant wipes for armrest and tray tables. W