Finding Direction: The Wind Vane Chronicles

Special by Tom Andrews [Note: These words are from a speech Tom gave three years ago at the library in Picayune to a large group of county leaders in various different fields of endeavor in Pearl River County, the fastest growing county in Mississippi. However, since that time, he's changed his views some, which I'll [...]

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For the past several years I’ve been going to the Mississippi Press Association’s annual convention merely as a spouse. Not even as an attorney/working spouse with interesting cases to talk about or funny court stories, and there were always lots of both of those. Maybe one day I can talk about some of those here [...]

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[This is the first of several posts I'm writing on the convention and newspapers. There was a lot going on in Mississippi over the weekend, as you probably know, politically, trialwise and otherwise to talk about and there were many good discussions.] Day 1 – Thursday I didn’t mention this the other day, but the [...]

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Even though I’m still supposed to be confined at home with my foot propped up for a few weeks longer, per my doctor, I’ve issued myself a “temporary pass” to go Thursday morning for the rest of the week with Tom to the Mississippi Press Association’s annual convention over in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. I [...]

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I haven’t done a “View from the 80s” (see 2/18, 3/8 and 4/11) lately, but it’s certainly not because I’m not getting constant and wise advice from my 83 year old mom out in Abilene, the source of my “80s” posts. As always, we email back and forth nearly daily and have long talks over [...]

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Last week I wrote about my one and only disastrous primitive camping experience with Tom when we “Shipwrecked on Ship Island” several years ago. But, in reality, I should have had plenty of warning about Tom and his camping trips. You see – one summer years ago while I was still a newspaper community editor, [...]

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