so after much soul-searching and deliberation, i think i'd like to be a writer. i always thought it would be something i'd like to do when i retire but after traveling and seeing people do all kinds of things NOW instead of waiting 20,30 or even 40 years in the future, i've decided to not put off something i can do today. so i'd like to write a ( Read more... )

Calling all animal lovers ( Read more... )

saw this and couldn't stop laughing!


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*sigh* so why am i surprised by any of this?? i shouldn't be but this morning, i was so consumed with rage, i had to walk away from my computer. sometimes, the unfairness of life just threatens to overwhelm me.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18341744/

i found this on livejournal today and thought it was so good, i wanted to repost it here. as you can see, i made a comment on the original post and i hope you can do the same. http://community.livejournal.com/neworleans/2620461.html?nc=15

girl power!

the picayune has been following this scary ass story all week. it's about the loss of our wetlands and how new orleans only has 10 years left before the land underneath it washes away. it's pretty chilling and i urge everyone to read this. because if there's one thing i've learned about all this is that no one is safe. most of us live along the ( Read more... )

I found this in the New Orleans community and thought this was pretty interesting ( Read more... )

so i've been on a crazy political/social documentary kick lately. the ones i've watched recently deal with wal-mart. and it's pretty scary what i've learned about wal-mart. in fact, i doubt i'll ever shop at another one again. and i'm not talking about the loss of small businesses and their substandard health care and wages. i'm talking about ( Read more... )

as some of y'all may know, last saturday, we made history. as louisianans and new orleanians as a whole. not because of katrina related news (thank god) but because for the first time in our 40 year nfl history, we actually have a winning team ( Read more... )