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Entries Tagged as 'Families'

“Das Boot” a/k/a “THE BOAT” – Conclusion

July 20th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Humor, Philosophical, Reflections, Tom & Me

Time had streamed rapidly by, gliding from a cold winter, into wet spring and now into the morass of hot, humid heat called summer on the Mississippi gulf coast.  Tom remained land locked.  He fretted and frittered his time away, necessitating me taking a longer time away from home than usual.  It was too sad [...]

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“Das Boot” a/k/a “THE BOAT”

July 19th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Humor, Perspective, Stories, Tom & Me

I haven’t written about “THE BOAT” lately.  Oversight on my part.  Although, you have to admit there’s been a whole lot of other activity going on in our lives.  Like Tom’s 5 heart-bypasses March 31 and recovery.  My 1,750 mile trip to Texas and back.  Etc, etc. But, believe me, boat happenings have been ongoing [...]

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Texas Style 4th of July

July 3rd, 2010 · 3 Comments · Dee's Family, Families, Finding Direction Contests, Photos, Videos, Reflections

Hi, Y’all! I’m in Texas once again – second time in three weeks – for another family visit.  This time, I wised up and flew out to Dallas instead of driving nearly 600 miles one way. Things are going as well as can be expected, I suppose, although things are tough right now for some [...]

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My Way is Unclear Today, But Stay With Me, Anyway . . .

June 14th, 2010 · 9 Comments · Perspective, Reflections, Spirituality, Tom & Me, Uncategorized

My heart is heavily burdened right now with family difficulties on many fronts, some from the distant past that have accumulated and come to a head in recent months.  Others have arisen over the past several months and continue to become more serious and onerous each day, it seems. I am spending my time, whether [...]

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Texas Spring Beauty

May 25th, 2010 · 7 Comments · Humor, Photos, Videos, Tom & Me, Uncategorized

Those of you who are regular readers know I was wanting to go out to Texas to see my mom & sister in April so we could take a little three day road trip down into the hill country of Texas to see all of the bluebonnets and Indian paintbrush in bloom.  Alas, Tom having [...]

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God’s Beautiful LITTLE Things in Life

May 22nd, 2010 · 11 Comments · Inspirational, Perspective, Philosophical, Reflections, Spirituality, Tom & Me

This has been a most stressful week for me, with no modem/internet for four days, my blog host moving all of us TheoBloggers over to a new server, with us having some down time here on my blog, and assorted family emergencies and crises.  Being an in-betweener, with my mom still with me, having grown [...]

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You’re Part of An Experiment – What Say Ye?!

May 16th, 2010 · 9 Comments · Blogging, Tom & Me, Uncategorized

Those of you who have been following my blog or who have dropped by at all and remember what it has looked like for more than five years will see a drastic change in it the past couple of days.  As I suspected, a lot of my readers and followers are just like me and [...]

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