There was definitely a selection factor about the people who attended my 50th high school reunion in suburban New York a few weeks ago. We were the people who weren’t dead. I confess I was seriously ambivalent about attending this event. But in the end, I was glad I went, despite, as I’ve previously written, the nightmare air travel to get there. Fortunately, there was one shining light in the airline experience: flying from Martha’s Vineyard (where we were visiting friends ahead of time) to Armonk, New York (closest airport to my hometown) in an eight-seater Cape Air plane. When I tried to go through the TSA line at the Martha’s Vineyard airport, I was informed that I didn’t need to as mine was a “TSA-unsecured flight.” There’s really such a thing? But then, there’s probably only minimal terrorist activity going on between Martha’s Vineyard and Armonk.