I am late on my blogging for relief. I was home with two sick babies yesterday. And what a luxury it was!

I sat in my nice cool house, watching Blue's Clue's and The Fairly Oddparents.We cuddled up on the couch with blankets, hot little faces all smooshed together. We had three different lunches to appease three different tastes. Something I don't normally do, but I felt like being extra sweet to these fever ridden babies. I can't seem to do anything to help the world.

How horrid to be stuck in New Orleans right now. To have sick children and no way to help them. No bed to put them in. No soft blankey to tuck around their little trembly chins. No tylenol liquid for the baby, no tylenol soft chews for the little girl that is too big for "baby medicine". No water. No food. No roof. Overwhelming fear of being shot or raped or having your children shot or raped. And we are in America. How can this be????

During 9/11, we had somewhere to put our anger. This time, where does it go?

I love Matt Lauer. I really do. But this morning in talking about Katrina, he said something to the effect of that the hurricane has really opened people's eyes that there are so many people living in squalor and poverty in this country.

Well, no fricking shit. If people couldn't see that, then this all really is a big shock to them. That is why so many people in America are angry. We are paying to rebuild Iraq, a country that we helped tear apart, and there are people starving and dying right here in America. Not just a few people, not just homeless drug addicts. People like you and me. And daily, people are losing their homes, their jobs, their lives. I won't say that people don't care until something like this happens, but it is much easier for the general public to ignore.

We are all gripped with the feeling of helplessness. These images we are seeing cannot be from America. It is absolutely horrific what is happening only a few miles from my air conditioned, cozy home.

I have chosen the Red Cross - Mississippi Gulf Coast Chapter as my charity. Please donate. If not to them, then to someone else on this list.

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