Cymbalta works by restoring the balance of certain natural substances in the brain (serotonin and norepinephrine), which helps to improve certain mood problems. -- drugs.com I've been taking Cymbalta for maybe eighteen months. It definitely helped, but I feel I'm at a point where my brain should be ...

I was putting up posters last week for the Beyond Jena forum. I thought to myself, “New Orleans East always gets left out of the mix these days. I’m going to start out there.” So I drove out there and started looking around for a little coffeeshop or some such where I could put a p...

(Photo by Infrogmation, used under a GNU Free Documentation License ) With the advent of a new administration in Washington providing the long-beleaguered citizens of New Orleans, LA a new sense of hope (no doubt increased upon hearing that the President has promised to visit the region) it’s easy...

1. A dream a couple of months ago. He kept following me around going "Hi! HI! Hi!! HI!! Hi!!! HI!!!" in this booming voice, and would not leave me alone. It was scary. 2. Last week I was half-listening to news on the car radio. The announcer said " ... president ... " and some guy who didn't sound l...

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Filed under: Money & work, Life & style, Celeb parenting About once a year Brad Pitt sits down with the annoying Ann Curry of the Today Show for a grilling about both his professional and personal life. Papa Pitt is ready and eager to talk about the professional side of things--he's currentl...

The Times-Picayune's Inside Out section (real estate, home design, gardening, etc.) has been following the stories of various New Orleanians restoring homes devastated by the post-Katrina failure of the federal levees. James Perry received homeowners and flood insurance payments for his home on N. M...

by Toni McGee Causey [This piece was written during Hurricane Katrina. We had no electricity, but had a generator and, weirdly, DSL, but not a phone. I blogged--I have been online in one journal form or another since about 1998--and I wanted to try to capture the experience of going through a hurric...

Floodwaters surging down the Mississippi River broke through an earthen levee near the eastern Missouri town of Winfield yesterday, overwhelming a massive sandbagging effort and forcing die-hard residents to evacuate their homes....

After the past weeks’ disastrous floods, many in the rural Midwest are looking to the government not with gratitude but animosity. Folks in towns that requested levees back in 1993 were left, paradoxically, high and dry by the Army Corps of Engineers, which required small communities to pay mo...