Baton Rouge

I've spent most of my time reading daughter Sarah's blog (sarahbottinbatonrouge.blogspot.com) She's in the FEMA command post in Baton Rouge, working with Logistics. That means high class problem solver, finding equipment, getting food for workers in the field, putting in 12 hr. days, sleeping on a cot, and all the time aware of little things like the shower floor being contaminated from what people track in. Wish I had the strength to go thou and do likewise. Maybe a couple of months from now, when the Red Cross will still need people, and my hip replacement is 100%.

The hurricane is still a blur. So many people. So much misery. We, far out in Hawaii, seem untouched, though we get bad winter storms that do a lot of damage. Nothing like Katrina. Nothing.

Today I started a writing class. Hopefully I'll get off the dime and submit some of my stuff to magazines.

Aloha for now.