Having totally "roasted" Starbucks last time, I must confess I’ve made a few furtive forays into that slendiferous establishment out in Abilene, Texas, some 750 miles away from home so as to try to completely avoid detection by anyone who could possibly know me. However, it was total magnanimity on my part to keep in [...]
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Being of humble origins, I find it difficult to get caught up in the current big craze surrounding various expensive gourmet coffees such as Starbucks and Gevalia. Although, I know there’s a lot of you out there who are. I was stupified when I typed in the words "gourmet coffee" at Yahoo and found there [...]
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Since we have been talking about movies, let me tell you about my all time favorite foreign film, “Cinema Paradiso.” (The review I cite here offers an excellent synopsis of the movie, although, I have to throw in a disclaimer. I strongly disagree with the review when it comes to the newer, “director’s cut” released [...]
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We live at the movies. Well – we would if Tom had his say. Our front room is a combination living/dining room (we hardly go in) that is 12 feet wide and 24 feet long and he wants to totally redecorate it. He’d cover the walls in red pleated velvet floor to ceiling, put black [...]
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Well, guys – I’m singing the rest of that song now (see yesterday’s post)! Praise be to God for His continual goodness in delivering me from this “body of death,” as Apostle Paul called it. The bad infection in my left foot has not spread into the bone, so I have escaped further hospitalization for [...]
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I know I promised to keep “Finding Direction . . .” lighthearted and uplifting because that is how I try to live my life and how I want others to think of me, but I have momentarily caved. Right now I am in the place Josh Groban sings about in “You Raise Me Up:” “When [...]
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[Note: See 2/18 and 3/08 for more "Views"] Lay Your Mind to Rest . . . I’m a real stickler for words and proper spelling and usage. I have my trusty Webster’s Fourth Edition College Dictionary sitting here on my big, wooden, government surplus desk and it’s open many times a week. Recently, I got [...]
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It's all about seeking out a better way, while exploring the less traveled side roads along the path . . .
I want you to leave here feeling better about yourself than when you dropped by, having either learned something new, thought about something differently or having just had a good laugh or two.
Dee Andrews, Esq.
Attorney, Former Journalist, Author
South Mississippi