Winter is a relative term. Saturday, it was in the mid 70s, cloudy, rainy off and on and extremely muggy. We had the doors open to the back screened in porch and Tom grilled hamburgers in between showers, but I finally relented about 4 p.m. and turned on the A/C for a little while [...]
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That’s what my mom said to me late Wednesday afternoon when I told her I’d had to make an emergency trip to our family doctor that morning. I don’t think I’ve heard that in a very long time – have you? Or have you ever? It’s neat, isn’t it? Bless your buttons. Kind of [...]
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My mom is nearing her 87th birthday (December 19). Yet, when I talked with her before lunch, she had the voice and enthusiasm of a much younger woman. I asked her what she had been up to this bright Monday morning and she allowed as how she’d been to renew her Texas driver’s license. It [...]
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You guys are in for a real treat today. For a while I was giving my very young and intelligent and witty 84 year old mom a forum here with my "View From the ’80s’" posts taken from her daily emails to me and/or things about her. (See 2/18/05, 3/8/05, 4/11/05 and 6/10/05.) And because [...]
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I admit it. I’m a big chicken about a lot of things. But, not the things you would think, probably. Like undergoing open heart surgery and five bypasses last March. I wasn’t particularly scared about that before hand. I just figured it was in God’s hands. Of course, it all came about so fast that [...]
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My 83 year old mom and I exchange emails just about every day, keeping close tabs on each other these days, since we live far away from each other. I live in South Louisiana and she lives in Abilene, Texas – some 800 miles away. Sure, my younger sister and her family live there, but [...]
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Dee Andrews, Esq.
Attorney, Former Journalist, Author
South Mississippi