life in Baton Rouge, Slidell and New Orleans, LA

Matt teaches me how to pack a parachute in Skydive N'awlins, Slidell, LA


Anita, the packer girl sits on Daddy Santa's laps


Santa loads onto Cessna 182


Toshiro finishes his jump #19


Stephen drives our rock-star Altima across the Mississippi, by mistake.


dinner night!


music for dessert



chilling out on the acoustic set in living room


look how this guy leans so far out to feed the alligators


and the turtles older than we all could ever know


gwarrrr!!




cruising the bayou through setting sun


'another one gets hooked.' I introduce Betsy to skydiving, an exciting and expensive sport


Toshiro gets training


Let's go, jump #21


Thank you Matt, for coaching with me, flying with me and showing me how to pack


busted down on Bourbon street


while my comic book princess Betsy lies sound asleep in the passenger seat, Toshiro pulls up on the side of a country road to take a pee. pitch dark night in the bayou land somewhere between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Toshiro makes one step too far off the shoulder and dives knee deep into an alligator populated muddy swamp