My husband travels a lot with his job, so we have a lot of frequent flyer miles so we can hop on a plane with no notice. That's a nice luxury and he is very supportive.

Well, you're talking to somebody who has almost 400,000 frequent flyer miles in his account, so yeah, that's a sensitive subject for a lot of us.

It expands the reach of the frequent flyer programs and makes it easier to earn and redeem miles.

[Frequent flier programs have made it easy to accrue frequent flier miles without ever stepping on a plane.] But what airlines won't tell you is that when you try to redeem your free ticket you're competing with 40 million other frequent fliers for the same ticket, ... We all want to go to the same place and there aren't enough upgrade seats to go around.

There is a very large chunk of our population who firmly believe in extraterrestrials.

It cost $65 last week for a fill-up of our Expedition. My husband travels a lot for his job. If he has to drive that (car) around to every corner of the East coast, we're in a lot of trouble.