One is given strength to bear what
happens to one, but not the 100 and 1 different things that might happen.
C. S. Lewis C. S. Lewis is one of my most favorite authors. ("Most" favorite, Dee Ann? What's with this "most" favorite?!) Anyway . . . I really like this quote and would like to comment on it [...]
I was going to post an interview today, but have too much going on not to talk about it.
I just missed the big Apple Blossom Parade and Festival here in Winchester on Saturday and have missed the apple blossoms themselves entirely, but maybe I can come back this fall sometime to visti [...]
As you know, Tom and I spent four days last week traveling up through north central and northwest Mississippi, coming back down through the vast Mississippi delta region on our trip home on Saturday. Today I want to talk about that. First, let me write a bit more about being at Ground Zero Blues Club [...]
Well, yesterday was a throwaway post.(I'm sorry. I couldn't resist. I thought about that line all day long yesterday, but it was too late to put it in yesterday's post, so when it popped into my head again this morning I had to add it.) Moving on . . .I have recently been thinking about my [...]
[Note: This was my very first "Wind Vane" story the day (on March 1, after two weeks of blogging back in February 2005) I changed the name of my blog from "Meandering Footprints" to "Finding Direction: The Wind Vane Chronicles (thus the first comment from then following). It is from my would be book, so [...]
[Note: The 2nd Annual Finding Direction Winter Desktop Photo Contest draws to a close tonight at midnight so the FD Judges are "fixin' to be" busy at work tabulating the winners. The announcement post featuring all of the winners will take place Tuesday so stay tuned. And remember the Grand Prize of six months free [...]
[Note: I originally published this post on May 17, 2005, but want to present it again because of the inspiration Greg England's story of his heritage has been the past three days over at "The Rev's Ramblings." So enjoy and add to the original 4 comments to let me know what you think.] It's been quite [...]
. . . that their mom is the best in the whole wide world. Including me. Plus, my mom reads my blog so what else do you expect me to say here today on her nearly Christmas birthday.
Oh yeah - she's 85 today. That sounds like an amazing number of years to me to be [...]
Posted in Families, Friends, Historical, Humor, Movies; Music, Philosophical, Popcorn, Reflections, Tom & Me, Uncategorized, Wind Vane Stories on November 25th, 2006 7 Comments »
I'm sick. But we've had a great holiday weekend anyway. I think I'll live. Our friends from Texas said when they got here and found out I had a cold, "You should have called us and told us not to come. You should have let us know because we told you if you got sick [...]