[Note: From last post: First - the pictures are of my mom, then myself at about the same ages. I just found those the other day and was struck by how much we looked alike (I thought). Second - I'm suffering terribly still with severe pain in my left shoulder blade from the pinched nerve. [...]
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Digressions #2a & b – Mini-Digressions Within A Digression Let me insert here a couple of "mini-digressions" within a digression before I get back to "The Great Road Trip of 2009," as follows: First (Mini-Digression #2a), comment on what these two photos have in common: Second (Mini-Digression #2b), please keep me in your [...]
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Digression #2 – More About "the Girls" Who are these participants in the Great Road Trip of 2009? They are more than just the designations "my mom, my sister and me" or "the girls." So, today I thought I’d tell you a bit more about us as a family, beginning, of course, with "my [...]
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The alarm clock went off way too early at 6 a.m. I struggled to wake up and get up, an iffy proposition any day and usually attempted much later in the morning. After being a bona fide morning person nearly my whole life, the past few years of feeling bad most mornings and not getting [...]
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Digression #1 – In My Own Defense In my own defense (see last post), I had good reasons for wanting to leave Abilene to start on our road trip east on Wednesday, April 1, before noon. Being the consummate trip planner and organizer I am (okay – obsessive), I had spent several hours on the [...]
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The day for the kick off to the Great Road Trip of 2009 with Mom & Laura that I had been planning for 3 1/2 months was now just one day away. I was stressed. Tom & I had been working like crazy for six weeks trying to make the house perfect for our [...]
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Prologue While I had long thought about it and "wished" for it, it was not until December past that it became an overwhelming conviction on my part to do something about it as I stood in my kitchen looking out toward the late afternoon Westerly sun streaming in. This is my favorite time of [...]
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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