Finding Direction: The Wind Vane Chronicles

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Entries Tagged as 'Friends'

Who, Us? Gone Sailin’!! – Part 1

November 16th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Friends, Humor, Perspective, Reflections, Stories, Tom & Me, Uncategorized

I DID it!! I took the plunge Saturday and christened Tom’s sailboat – Item 7 – with my lovely presence.  I also officially christened it another way, but I’ll get to that in a minute. He’s only had the boat three years, after all.  I had to make sure he could handle it well and [...]

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Let’s Hear It For The Dallas Cowboys!!

November 6th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Friends, Humor, Uncategorized

I’m stooping to a new low today.  Picking fun at Tom’s beloved Dallas Cowboys.  (Or, as he has been saying of late, “Stupid Cowboys.”)  He’s always been a big Cowboys fan.  Especially since after he lived in Dallas in the late 1960s and was in the Air National Guard with several of the top notch [...]

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How To Start A Fight

October 30th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Friends, Humor

Received these from a school friend today.  He & I lived on neighboring farms in west Texas and rode the school bus together, beginning in 4th Grade.  I dreamed about all of my school classmates last night and we were all young – high school age or just a bit older.  We were all thin [...]

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Guest Post: A Birthday Timeline

September 13th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Dee's Family, Friends, Inspirational, Our Kids, Philosophical, Reflections, Spirituality, Uncategorized

I am SO lucky!  I have a beautiful, talented, loving daughter-in-law named Lynn (Mark’s wife), who not only is a sweetheart in the family – hers, ours and their own – but also a gifted writer.  She blogs and does lots of videos of the girls at My Charmed Life, that I really enjoy, being [...]

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As Photo Contest Judging Continues – Practice Patience!

August 23rd, 2010 · 4 Comments · Blogging, Finding Direction Contests, Friends, Inspirational, Reflections, Uncategorized

The  judges in the Finding Direction Summer 2010 Photo Contest are busy, busy pouring over all of the entries.  In all, there were nearly 70 entries (I missed several the other day – sorry about that.  Nearly left a couple of people out, and certainly don’t want that to happen) and it’s taking time to [...]

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The Girl in the Woods

May 18th, 2010 · 6 Comments · Friends, Inspirational, Perspective, Philosophical, Reflections, Spirituality, Stories, Uncategorized

She lived out in the deep Piney Woods of East Texas, a good ways out from Nacogdoches. She was 19 years old and married to a small thin man in his late 30s or early 40s who looked to be twice his age and was crippled up in his left arm from a working accident [...]

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Me & Bobby McGee . . . Well, Actually . . . Me & Patrick Mead!

March 15th, 2010 · 8 Comments · Blogging, Friends, Tom & Me, Uncategorized

Yep.  I’ve met the humble, yet esteemed, brilliant, funny Patrick Mead.  And what a joy that was!!  Well, on my part, anyway.  I have no idea what Patrick thought of moi. Friday afternoon about 4 p.m., Tom & I both got to meet Patrick, whom I have long considered one of my dearest blog buddies [...]

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