Vanity Fair Extra

No, I’m not talking the Tom, Katie and Suri pictures [does anyone else think Suri looks Asian?], I’m just referring to the essay described below:.

In Katrina’s Wake
One year after Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, residents are still weathering the storm. The author, a Louisiana native who managed Al Gore’s 2000 presidential campaign, takes a personal look back at the events and aftermath of the deluge that forever changed the landscape of the Big Easy
By DONNA BRAZILE

It’s very good and I’m not sure why I was surprised by that. I guess I am just so glad when the truth, especially from a local, gets put to print. Indeed, it has been “one of the worst years in memory” and even with celebrating my birthday this year, all I could think about was last year and how I had just been put back in touch with my parents 5 days after the storm and how difficult it was for them to fathom what our city became.

Go read…I’ve got to ice my back again.