My mother, Audrey, forgot her insulin, and the Red Cross helped us get it. Emanuel Cole (the eldest of the group at 68) has breathing difficulties. He has some supply of his medication, but ...

Hurricane Katrina brought the need for preparedness to the foreground in 2005. The Red Cross recognizes the need to take that to the next step, which is teaching people to care for themselves and others in a disaster.

They tell us water is up to the rooftops - and they've seen floating bodies.

She was never neutral, but she could be tolerant, although it was hard work - never a tolerance of indifference.

Most men in the ward were now convalescing. To her, "each day the nurse's duties became lighter and therefore more irksome.

Elizabeth's back at the red cross, and I'm walking the dog.