HELLO AND THANK YOU FOR PERUSING MY BLOG.

This is my first entry, so Ill try to summarize a bit.

MY NAME IS DODD AND I WILL BE IN NEW ORLEANS OVER THE NEXT 7 WEEKS HELPING WITH THE CITY'S RECONSTRUCTION EFFORT. (August 29th till October 18th). I am currently in New York City and will be leaving in a few days to make my way down to begin.

In my very first phone call looking in to potential housing situations (I was planning on renting a room), I was offered free lodging by two excellent souls Brian & Ellie Lawlor, in exchange for my good deeds in the city. Brian and Ellie live in UpState New York and because of a long crush on the city, also have a wonderful little shotgun in Uptown New Orleans. They have wanted to come down and help out in the Crescent City, but do to Big People Jobs in Yankee Land, have been unable to make the trek. SO, they were actually thrilled to have the opportunity to SPONSOR (my terminology, not theirs. They are too humble for that) someone like myself. And I could not be more grateful. Because of their generosity I will be more free to get my hands dirty and hopefully help out some folks who really need it.

Now WHAT I will actually be doing Im not quite sure. Or WHERE for that matter. But I think it will be along the lines of mucking houses, sheet rocking, hauling trash, white goods (taking away flooded refrigerators, stoves, etc.) and basic manual labor.

I'll hang out with my family a bit when I arrive and also figure out what kinds of projects are going on in the city. Then, my housing opens up on September 6th and I'll make the move in to the city and then hopefully jump right in.

We shall see and more to come.