The state elects people who only enact performative legislation instead of addressing real issues. This is true even when right and left agree, like on home insurance.

This day, the anniversaries of Katrina and Ida, overload us with emotions and memories.

But there is a bigger family I don't want to leave. Not just blood family, but friends. People, who, when I'm around, my cajun accent gets thick. I could do without the heat and the storms, but I would miss the swamp sunsets.

It is getting harder to stay.

But we did, and it's an amazing facility.

I still love teaching. I love my community and my culture. I love the idea that on the way home, we might see an alligator in the canal.

My immediate family could leave and start somewhere away from the storms.

I was hired not long after in a neighboring parish. The school accepted me, a teacher already there and I fell in love, and now this is my home.

Four years ago, Ida damaged my roof and siding, while forcing the roof at my present school to collapse.

It took a while to come back.

I’ve never seen it put that way, and I now realize that is exactly how and why I pray.

I just lost my BiL to brain cancer. He did get the best treatment, but my dear sister-in-law had to deal with too many people who suggested the dumbest things. The worst part is that they manipulate others through guilt.

There is a special place in hell for these people.

So sorry 💔

…not sure why Computer Science is on their schedule; they are showing up and working hard to learn it. I'm dedicating this year to meeting the kids where they are, but I will not let them stay there.

Year 26 and I still love this job. Mostly 🤣

It should violate the 8th.

In other words it’s wealth redistribution, from the middle class to the rich class.