Like many others you’ve read online about, I can’t stop clicking online and on television about the devastation and horror of the last week or so in the Gulf Coast. I rant and rave and cry and shout and the armchair quarterbacking, it is in full force. It’s easy for me to do that - the armchair quarterbacking - since I’m here, the weather has been great and I have a home and electricity and a toilet. I’m angry at what everyone else is angry at, I’m sure, but that is for another ranting and raving.

My friend and her sister are two people behind the rolling duffel project - putting together rolling duffel bags full of supplies for folks displaced by Hurricane Katrina and the floods that followed. If you are looking for a worthy cause to donate to besides the Red Cross, the United Way, etc., here’s your chance. I am so proud that this woman is my friend.