Struggling to remember life outside the destruction.
Read MoreThe Washington Post wrote a much-needed, uplifting editorial about how the Coast Guard was the silver lining of an otherwise dismal response to Katrina.
Read MoreA window into “the shit is on fire” show.
Read MoreThe sobering reality of what it is like to try and rescue people from the floodwaters of Katrina sinks in.
Read MoreForty 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.
Read MoreI'm leaving in a few minutes for the airport, heading to the command post in Alexandria, Louisiana, to work on the Hurricane Katrina response.
Read MoreRecap and photos from my eight-day tour of the San Juan Islands and lower Vancouver Island
Read MoreIt 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.
Read MoreEight 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.
Read MoreWomen 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.
Read MoreMy 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.
Read MoreWhen 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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