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Entries Tagged as 'Tom’s Family'

Arkansas Memories Tour of 2009: Cotter, Part 2, Cinema Paradiso – The Paradise Theater

January 18th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Families, Historical, Humor, Movies; Music, Photos, Videos, Reflections, Tom & Me, Tom's Family

My all time favorite foreign film – by far – is “Cinema Paradiso” (Paradise Theater), a 1988 Italian film that was the winner of more than 19 awards, including the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 1989 and Special Jury Prize at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival. If you are a movies lover, you [...]

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Arkansas Memories Tour of 2009: Cotter, Part 1

January 11th, 2010 · 12 Comments · Families, Historical, Humor, Photos, Videos, Reflections, Tom's Family

The most recent post on the Memories Tour was on Dec. 15th, about the hospital in Gassville, AR, if you missed it.  I said in that post I was going to be posting more regularly about the “tour,” and haven’t done one since.  That’s Christmas for you.  (That’s my story, and I”m stickin’ to it.) [...]

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Arkansas Memories Tour of 2009 – Gassville

December 15th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Families, Historical, Humor, Photos, Videos, Stories, Tom & Me, Tom's Family

[Note:  Just tell yourself that all good things are worth waiting for.  Like Christmas.  And the next chapter in this Arkansas Memories Tour of 2009 saga, which has been so long coming.  I should be able to get them to you quicker now for a while.  Thanks for your patience!!] I last left you (see [...]

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Arkansas Memories Tour of 2009 – Day 2: Morning

December 2nd, 2009 · 17 Comments · Families, Humor, Photos, Videos, Reflections, Tom & Me, Tom's Family

The time changed during our first night in the rental house, giving us an extra hour to “sleep in” after the traumatic trip up in the van the day before from Memphis to outside Gassville (GASS-vul), Arkansas, but we all awoke early.  The house and surroundings were gorgeous. Here’s the back of the house: This [...]

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Arkansas Memories Tour of 2009 – Night One: Halloween “On the Town”

November 27th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Families, Humor, Reflections, Tom & Me, Tom's Family

When I last left you on our trip, we had just arrived – long way around – at our country rental house near “GASS-vul” Arkansas. It was about 7 p.m., the house brightly lit and a “balm in Gilead.” We unglued our bodies from the van and spent 20 minutes prying the luggage and all [...]

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Arkansas Memories Tour of 2009 – Day One, Part Two: Wally World to Mt. Home

November 23rd, 2009 · 7 Comments · Families, Perspective, Tom & Me, Tom's Family, Uncategorized

What started out as one person going into Wally World in eastern Arkansas to get a step stool turned into all eight of us wandering around WW’s hinterlands for an hour searching for each other with our eyes wide at all of the costumed Halloweeners.  The 25% of the patrons not in full costume looked [...]

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Arkansas Memories Tour of 2009 – Day One, Part One: On the Road, Memphis to Mt. Home

November 20th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Families, Humor, Perspective, Tom & Me, Tom's Family

[Note:  Family - gotta love 'em!  We had a fabulous time on this trip.  And, what fun all along the way riding together - eight, then nine, of us - in a 15 passenger van.  Enjoy some of the highlights of our five days together.] At the end of the last episode of the Andrews’ [...]

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