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Entries Tagged as 'Creating A Home'

Baloney Sandwiches & Chicken Noodle Soup

July 12th, 2007 · 9 Comments · Creating A Home, Perspective, Reflections, Tom & Me

Tom’s funny. How many of you go home for lunch every day or any time?  Anybody out there? Tom comes home for lunch every day.  He was able to begin doing so when we moved up to Picayune last spring into the apartment to start building our house.  Before we moved out here two weeks [...]

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Fireflies & Hummingbirds

July 11th, 2007 · 8 Comments · Creating A Home, Perspective, Reflections, Tom & Me

We have fireflies and hummingbirds. The woods at night are filled with tiny flickers of light that are the fireflies.  Tom stands and leans out over the railing of the high back deck above the woods and watches them before he comes to bed.  Night lights of the best kind. By day, hummingbirds come to [...]

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An Element of Calm Has Descended Upon the Land

July 10th, 2007 · 9 Comments · Creating A Home, Perspective, Philosophical, Reflections, Tom & Me, Uncategorized

I’m tired of thinking about and even writing about plumbing, so I won’t.  As of yesterday, it’s presumably (do I sound a bit skeptical here in my cynical years?) fixed.  So, an element of calm has descended upon the land. I say element of calm because that elusive peace is still to be completely captured, [...]

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Gains and Losses – Reflections on Moving

July 5th, 2007 · 8 Comments · Creating A Home, Reflections, Tom & Me

With every gain in life, there come some losses, as well.  Tom and I have been going through both these days and have been in a big way since Katrina. Moving from our home of fourteen years in Slidell up here to Picayune and into a small apartment plus storage unit and being boxed up [...]

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Whew! What A Hard Time We’ve Been Having . . .

July 1st, 2007 · 14 Comments · Blogging, Creating A Home, Reflections, Tom & Me, Uncategorized

Hey!  Have y’all missed me?!?  I hope, but am so sorry for the long absence.  It’s been an extremely difficult week and very hard move, but we’re finally in our house, so that’s good news.  Still don’t have internet hooked up right at home and didn’t have any at all until yesterday late afternoon, all due [...]

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It’s A Good News, Bad News Day- Which Do You Want First?

June 18th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Creating A Home, Reflections, Tom & Me

So – what do you want to hear first?  The good news or the bad news. Me – I always like to get the bad news over with first and end with a happy not.  I’m hoping that’s how my life ends, too.  On a very good note.  And no, I don’t mean whether or [...]

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I’m Wavering Here, Guys – I Need Some Cheer

June 12th, 2007 · 16 Comments · Creating A Home, Perspective, Reflections, Tom & Me, Uncategorized

Here I sit, Dee Ann Davidson O’Neil Andrews, Esq. (see My Profile for the explanation for all of that and My Resume for the rest – it’s a long complicated story), the one who is always cheery and upbeat encouraging everyone around the blogging world, moping around in a terribly despondent state of mind. If [...]

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