Thanksgiving 2009 brings about the third annual "Smith Family Mashed Potato Mile." This grueling race forces my family to overcome the forces of laziness, gluttony, and of course...early morning!

It's become a tradition for the various departments within Southwest Airlines' Headquarters in Dallas to host a Thanksgiving Feast the week before the actual Thanksgiving.  Why?

In the SPIRIT of Thanksgiving, Employees from Southwest Airlines Executive Office and Communications came together to share a meal and to share what they are most thankful for.

to read a blog post about our "feasts" (complete with recipes!), check out: http://blogsouthwest.com/blog/the-southwest-airlines-feast-lives-on

Exactly a week before Thanksgiving, about half of the Schedule Planning Department assembled on a fine November morning to volunteer at a house being built by Habitat for Humanity.  The reason only half of our group was there because the other half of Schedule Planning had been at the same house a week earlier for similar work;  the earlier group framed and raised the house, while my gro

As I’m writing this post and getting ready for the Thanksgiving holiday, I can watch the gold and orange leaves fall to the ground outside of my office.  It doesn’t seem like over a year ago I wrote, “The ABC’s of the Southwest Airlines’ Corporate Community Affairs Team.”  Time has zipped by, and I