I have made the effort to turn off the tv news. I can control what I read in a newspaper so I try to get my info there.

While there is other news to report, people want to know what is going on in New Orleans. So news media feeds that desire for info...they're in a business afterall and they don't want people switching channels because they weren't showing current news.

That being said, we all have the power to turn off the tv. I worry about people like my grandfather's second wife who watched the news constantly after 9/11 and worried herself sick.

I caught myself getting ready to complain about the 24 hours of constant rain yesterday. Then it occured to me that there are people living in horrible conditions right now and if the worst thing that happens to me is a little rain, then I am a very lucky lady.

I am also currently trying to organize my mom's school (since I don't have my own school) to organize some kind of fundraiser like they did for the tsunami victims. The classroom teachers don't have time to add something else as school just started yesterday. This helps me since I am unable to donate monetarily. Kids are very compassionate. We should all see the world through the eyes of a child.