It’s a somber Labor Day this year.
But for all of us, we can take Labor Day to also labor to think about how we can help Hurricane Katrina’s many victims — if not by money, then by giving some old clothing to a local charity that can get it to the storm’s victims or doing something to help a charity out.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.