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Entries from July 30th, 2008

Legal Eagle Daze: My Life & Career in the Law – 3

July 30th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Legal Career, Reflections, Tom & Me

Part 3 – DIGRESSION:  Law School Smarts, Life Experiences & the Vagaries of Each I’m not very far into my story of my life and career in law, but want to digress a bit, already. I left you last time with my five month whirlwind, somewhat impulsive decision to go to law school at 44, [...]

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Legal Eagle Daze: My Life & Career in the Law – 2

July 28th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Legal Career, Reflections, Tom & Me, Uncategorized

 Part 2 – Checking out going to law school  As I sat and talked with the Gulfport plaintiff attorney in the late winter of 1989, I told him I had recently thought about becoming a lawyer, but didn’t know anything about it or how I could do it, if I did. He said he was [...]

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Legal Eagle Daze: My Life & Career in the Law

July 24th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Legal Career, Reflections, Tom & Me, Uncategorized

[Note:  I had my eyes dilated yesterday afternoon when I saw my retinologist, and they are still half-way dilated, making my vision really blurry.  So, I'm starting off slow with my memoir of my legal career.  Hope today's short post - you must read the links at the end to understand what is coming - [...]

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I’m in a Quandary

July 22nd, 2008 · 6 Comments · Humor, Reflections, Uncategorized

I’ve been in and out today, but when I’ve been in I’ve mostly been sitting here in front of my computer in a quandary, which Webster’s New World College Dictionary, Fourth Edition, tells me is "a state of uncertainty; perplexing situation or position; dilemma."  Quandary’s synonym is "predicament."  You see, I have some really neat [...]

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Whisperings of God

July 18th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Health, Reflections

There is hardly ever a complete silence in our soul.  God is whispering to us well nigh incessantly.  Whenever the sounds of the world die out in the soul, or sink low, then we hear these whisperings of God.  He is always whispering to us, only we do not always hear, because of the noise, [...]

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I’m Laid Up With My Left Foot – Again

July 16th, 2008 · 8 Comments · Health

Third time’s the charm, right?! I sure hope so.   Actually – now that I think about it – this is the 4th time I’ve been out of commission with this left foot of mine in the past three years.  Before that – back in the 80s and early 90s – it was my right [...]

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I’m Hoping to Top Olive Riley’s Record

July 14th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Blogging, Dee's Family, Tom & Me, Tom's Family, Uncategorized

Olive Riley has died.  Why is that of importance to me or the world, you ask? Well, you see – according to the story on MSN online, the lively Australian lady of 108 was considered to be the world’s oldest blogger.  I couldn’t connect with the first link they give in the article to her [...]

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