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Here’s a song that my co-worker, Leslie Meyers penned with the team lead for Beauregard Parish, Richard Hendrickson (who can sing it!) There is only one L in Vermilion There is only one L in Chevrolet There is only one L in Louisiana And that is why people say: You only need one L . . . → Continue reading: There is only one L in Vermilion A meta-post just to explain that some posts will now be password protected. The blog is a useful space for documenting certain thoughts for my own review. I could document these offline in a handwritten journal, or in a text document on my hard drive, but I find it more usful and interesting to see . . . → Continue reading: Protected Posts Today I’m catching up reading all the posts from the JitW-spring06 list that I missed reading because I didn’t register until a few days before the gathering. The discussions and insights of the folks on the list touch on all of the relevant issues and reflect the sophistication and insight I respect so much in . . . → Continue reading: Lazy Sunday Andria Hsu had a story in yesterday’s All Thing’s Considered on the aftermath of Hurricane Rita on Vermilion Parish. Listen to it here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5232278 Just got forwarded a link from a contact I made in Baton Rouge about a group concerned about the welfare of animals in Vermilion Parish. As it happens, one of the National Guardsman in my team, and his wife, have long been active with the group. They need some basic things like nails, and warm . . . → Continue reading: This group needs your help Just briefly, here are the things I meant to blog about but haven’t yet, in no satisfactory chronological order. Just got to get them down or else I’ll forget to write about them entirely. (With blog rot in the Swamp of Despair, where the waters above meet the waters below, and the great Nothing erodes . . . → Continue reading: Slacker Today I am working on the Community Baseline, as I was yesterday, and I will be tomorrow. It is the first part of the Long Term Community Recovery Plan we will be submitting the compilation of my team’s planning efforts in Vermilion Parish. I have created worksheets for the other experts in my team to . . . → Continue reading: Long Term Community Recovery I have a back log of things to write about so here are my observations from my visit last Saturday (1/28) of New Orleans. The night before, I visited Beth Shalom Synagogue in Baton Rouge, for meeting Rougey Jews and to maybe even sing L’cha Dodi and other nice songs. The synagogue is one of . . . → Continue reading: New Orleans This will be a short post because I am exhausted. Early this morning I left La Quinta Inn for Abbeville. The hour an a half drive brought me to work by 7:30am where I met many of my fellow workers and my supervisors. After getting set up I began what turned out to be a . . . → Continue reading: First Day 
I just received my deployment details. I’ll be heading to Vermillion Parish in southwestern Louisiana, a largely rural parish in the heart of Cajun country where a number of small towns (population less than 5000) were devastated. I am very excited! I’ll be staying in Abbeville (or nearby) and filling in a gap with the . . . → Continue reading: Vermilion Parish |
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