Melinda Barton is a regular contributor to Raw Story, based out of New Orleans. On September 1st, she was finally able to respond to questions from concerned editors, colleagues and readers about her well-being with a short message saying she was safely in Texas, after receiving medical treatment from the Red Cross. On September 4th, she followed up by submitting this train-of-thought blog entry as a potential column.]
It's all gone. The kindergarten classroom where I got in trouble for putting Play Doh in some kid's ear. (We thought it would go "in one ear and out the other.")