Posts tagged with "New Orleans"

Dissertation Progress and …

a few other family matters have filled my time this week.  I just finished up edits of Chapter 4 and Chapter 5.  Now, I’ll be writing the intro and conclusion while those are under review probably for a bit more editing.

We had a “snow day” Friday, which for us means everything shuts down because when ice falls from the sky we don’t know how to drive.  Also, we never know when our transformers (not the more than meets the eye kind) might blow and our power out.  On the great “snow day” of ’08 our power went out for quite a while.

We had a death in the family.  My wife’s grandfather, Grandpaw Jack, passed away on Thursday.  Though dealing with the death of a family member is never easy, this was not unexpected.  His funeral services were a testimony to a life well lived.  He and my wife’s grandmother were married for 58 years.  What a testimony in a day and time when that is becoming more and more rare!  If you are a praying person, please rememer JoAnn Burchfield, my wife’s grandmother as well as the rest of the family.

Finally, in South Louisiana we have a little something called Mardi Gras.  Growing up in the city of New Orleans and just outside, I think I had my fill of Mardi Gras growing up.  But, we do get a couple of days off, which is nice.  That, however, does mean that my kids are out of school and daycare.

So, I’ll probably catch back up with you all on Wednesday.  I’ll provide updated rankings and pick up with my regular blogging then.  Maybe I’ll squeeze in one or two posts before then …

Drew Brees – The Religious Faith of the SuperBowl MVP

The sight of Drew Brees with his son after the SuperBowl moved even the most hardened among us.  I thought that this video gives a little more insight into who he is.  I can’t say that I agree with him about a number of things here (e.g. I genuinely don’t believe that anybody can do anything they want to with God and hard work; there are just some things that some people can’t do), but it is very difficult to say anything bad about him considering much of the work that he does in the Gulf Coast region.  It is the case that oftentimes the media and people in general blow smoke about the charity work of athletes or celebrities.  Yet I think Brees is an example of someone in the spotlight who genuinely is a good person.

At any rate, I thought this might interest a few people…

Saints Posts


I Still Can't Believe It …

THE SAINTS WON THE SUPERBOWL!!!!

This is the play of the game where I actually started singing “We Are The Champions.”  I just knew when we went up by a touchdown that there was no coming back for the Colts.  And, you can visit Jason’s blog if you want to see the nail in the coffin.

Related:

All of my Saints posts leading up to the SuperBowl