For the past week or two, I've been realizing that I'm finally in a place in my head where I can think a little bit about Katrina and south Louisiana and the Gulf coast in general. You may or may not know that I was born and raised in Baton Rouge, capital of Louisiana, a mere 90 miles from New Orleans, and Katrina and its after-effects typified in ( Read more... )

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