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I was honored to get an invitation from the Award-Winning Ed Tyll Show, a nationally syndicated radio program, to speak on the “Inspiring Stories from the Louisiana Flood” segment. I had a wonderful conversation with the host Ed and shared my mother’s story of having lost everything at the age of 85 when over 4 …
It’s three weeks after the Great Louisiana Flood of 2016, and I feel a little like a UFO abductee who reports that they have missing time—they can’t recall what happened to them between the time the UFO picked them up and put them back. I can relate. I think I’m a #LAflood abductee. There are …
I am happy to report that my mom, aka ‘Mrs. B,’ is now happily installed in her new digs and is once again a (temporary) resident of Baton Rouge … In the end, it’s all ‘things,’ and what matters most is that the people you care for are OK. But some of those ‘things’ carry …
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Day 3 (or is it Day 21?) of cleaning out Mom’s house after the flood. It seems as if we’ve been doing this for a while now. The majority of the pile that was in the house is now outside of the house, and the pile of stuff that is salvageable is the smallest of …
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It’s been a long day. Honestly, I’m not sure where to start to write about what it’s like to walk with your mom into the house where she has lived for the last 45 years, knowing that 5 feet of water flowed through the house for 36 or so hours. Furniture is supposed to be …
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