Struggling to remember life outside the destruction.
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The Washington Post wrote a much-needed, uplifting editorial about how the Coast Guard was the silver lining of an otherwise dismal response to Katrina.
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A window into “the shit is on fire” show.
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The sobering reality of what it is like to try and rescue people from the floodwaters of Katrina sinks in.
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Forty eight hours ago I finished my last track race of the season. Right now I sit at a table in the small Alexandria, Louisiana, convention center that is home to the U.S. Coast Guard Region 8 command post.
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I'm leaving in a few minutes for the airport, heading to the command post in Alexandria, Louisiana, to work on the Hurricane Katrina response.
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Recap and photos from my eight-day tour of the San Juan Islands and lower Vancouver Island
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It doesn’t happen often enough, but there are times when it seems an angel reaches out to you, and before they disappear, you understand that you are not alone.
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Eight years after being humiliated on a climb in the San Juan Islands, I returned with my fixed gear bike, Rosemary, as a new person with something to prove.
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Women constantly find themselves in situations where men doubt their abilities. Even in an island paradise like the San Juans. Luckily, my bike spoke up for me.
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My girlfriends and I have had quite a few monkey wrenches thrown into our lives this summer. The one thing we can count on is that we are not alone. Perhaps physically we are, but not in life.
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When I was younger and lived out east, I would always look towards the setting sun and think how lucky the people were who lived anywhere farther west than me.
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