The big question EVERYONE asks these days is,”Where are you living?” Everyone knows we flooded and that our home was destroyed. So it is a […]

Remember that old anti-drug commercial? “This is your brain.” (and they drop an egg in the pan.) They then fry the egg to a sizzle […]

You know those stereotypes of the Italian grandmothers that did nothing but cook and bake and shove food into their grandchildren’s chubby cheeks throughout their […]

Since things have been looking very grim for remaining at my homestead, I have been locked in grief. I weep spontaneously, and waves of anger […]

There is something fishy and smelly (literally and figuratively) going on with the bayous these days. Before the flood, the bayou was a place to […]

Well, the news is in and it is not good. We do not have the elevation to rebuild beyond the 50 percent damage mark and […]

I have lived in Houston for 34 happy years. I remember a few years after I came, Hurricane Alicia created havoc and I realized that […]

Less than two weeks and I will officially start my vacation in Margate, New Jersey. If you haven’t read what this place means to me, […]

If you were born and raised in my era, you will remember the pop group Blood, Sweat, and Tears. I was reminded of that group […]

Of all the nightmares (multiple every day) that we have had to deal with so far since our flood, (see previous blogs) the worst one […]