Washington        In trying to get home the first thing that is pounded into your skull is that nothing is easy and everything takes much, much longer than you ever imagined.  The trip from Little Rock to Jackson to Washington yesterday ended up logging in from start to finish around 16-17 hours, slightly less than …

Washington        Nothing is ever easy in New Orleans, especially coming home again!  Though spared the hurricane largely for the usual reasons (arrogance, incompetence, insensitivity, whatever?), the Mayor and the gang do not seem quite willing to let people come home.     At one level he is claiming there is a clean-up, but people on …

Jackson        There was a different pace and tenor to evacuation day #2 in Little Rock.  We were all up early despite the late collapse to watch the progress of Gustav as it hit the coast.     Learning from Katrina, there were two coolers worth of food taken out of the freezer at home that …