This year we’ve escaped most of the big hurricanes like we had a few years ago. But now we see some big ones gearing up and heading this way from the eastern Atlantic. There is Gustav, which is predicted to hit the New Orleans area this weekend. Then there’s another one behind it named Hannah, [...]

It’s funny how kids go back to school at different times, depending upon where you live across the country. In my neighborhood, the kids went back to school the second week of August and they finish up the middle of May. But my sister’s kids go back the day after Labor Day, in September, and [...]

This whole month I’ve been stressing on the fact that my car tags expire. To renew the tags I have to go through an emissions inspection and if the car doesn’t pass then I can’t get the tags until I fix whatever is wrong with it. That really scares me, because I don’t have any [...]