Story Ideas

1) How is it decided that school should be closed? Who decides what amount of rain is unsafe?
Need to talk to:
Students (get opinions, do they think that the schools are choosing the right amount of time to be open/closed? how do missing classes due to hurricanes affect them?)
VP of School (when is it unsafe for students to come to school?)
Teachers (how does missing a day of class change their classes?)

Hurricane Plan

Stepdad: Okay, so while we're all here, let's talk about our emergency plan....
I'm in the kitchen, mixing eggs, vegetable oil, water and brownie mix. His tone catches my attention and I lean toward the wall to listen.
Stepdad: Who do we eat first?

We bought crackers, pickles, powdered milk, juice, Capri Sun, ravioli, pudding, cookies, and other dry snacks. Hurricane plan: Eat lots. If we run out, eat the next largest person in the house.

It's been 6 months and 8 days...

There's definitely a lot going on.
My second article for the Star Banner will print tomorrow.
I'm taking pictures of Kayla Dumon on Saturday, followed by a show in Orlando.
My second year of college begins in three days. I'm taking five classes this semester. I have six more classes to go in the spring.
My play opens to an audience in three weeks. Every time I think about it, I'm nervous. I hope I'm getting it all out slowly right now rather than all at once on stage. I know it's not a big deal, but I have a lot of lines and it's the biggest role I've ever had. There's a lot of people to keep from being let down.

It's been six months since Tara died. Six months and one week.
It just wonder now... in all that I'm doing... keeping busy, exhausting myself... and I wonder what it's like to just be. To be still in the last moment of busy. Tara was getting out of her car, going home after another day at the movie theater, busy getting home. What does she remember? What does she know?
Does she forgive?