Recently, while clicking around in this website, I realized that the links to my orginal series of posts about Hurricane Katrina, entitled The Katrina Blog Project, were all broken. This was greatly disturbing, since these posts were the reason I started writing this blog 14 years ago. I have fixed them all, and access to the entire project and an explanatory post have been restored.
I suspect the links all broke one or two years ago when I upgraded my Squarespace account.
Anyway, I am still here and posting after 14 years, and this must be one of the oldest continually updated blogs on the internet. I know of none that have kept going for so long, even for such a small audience. To the few who still come here, I thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Speaking of hearts, this past week I had the honor of taking my daughter to college. She is now installed at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi, a wonderful little school that deserves a lot more credit and attention from potential college students than it gets.
My daughter is now there, and I am amazed at how profound an experience it was for me. I always knew I loved my little girl, but the intensity of that love never showed through the way it did when she moved out. I didn't think I could love another so much, but I was mistaken.
Have sympathy for those parents taking their children to college for the first time. It is a triumphant time, it is a lucky time, but for parents it is also a sad time. I will miss her, and can't wait to see her beautiful face again.