In the United States, hurricane season generally runs between August and November. As many Americans make travel plans during these months, many travel itineraries may become interrupted due to... Read more >>

My hometown is New Orleans, LA, where I was born. Yes, I would love to go back to my hometown. I’ve never been through a hurricane before. I now reside in Florida, a place I don’t want to... Read more >>

I have had a great deal of turmoil the past two years with Hurricane Ike and the death of my husband. I love to sit after work and smell the clean air. We would sit in our hot tub and it was so... Read more >>

Stillness: uncanny quiet, un-calm. Then all the birds a-twitter in an instant: Hitchcock-ian cacophony; the birds are first to flee. Once cumulus cottony clouds adrift: now suddenly cannonball black.... Read more >>

August 29, 2005 It is evening in Wisconsin, the air sticky and still, not a single breeze whispering through the open windows of my living room. I am glued to my television. 2,000 miles away,... Read more >>

Here’s a taste of New Orleans ... made famous by the French Quarter’s Pat O’s! Ingredients: 4 ounces Dark Rum 4 ounces Passion Fruit Syrup 2 ounces Grenadine 1 ounce Fresh Lime... Read more >>

“What a blustery day!” Winnie the Pooh’s words and British understatement definitely describe what we survived last week. However, in California, we aren’t used to all this... Read more >>

I watched him from afar as he would chase down field mice, snatch up grasshoppers, ambush gophers and other small rodents and pests and I watched him for years, just outside my window, while... Read more >>

The winter of 2004 will be embedded in my mind forever. Will and I had remained huddled together for hours praying God would spare our lives. The roaring of the wind, the torrents of... Read more >>

Wind if blowing Rain is pouring While I was sleeping When I was snoring Some lightning struck My wife woke up Then I was elbowed in the gut I wanted to go back to bed But watched the news... Read more >>