Finding Direction: The Wind Vane Chronicles

I’ve decided that today shall be “Question Day” here at Finding Direction.  You ask me questions and I’ll answer.  Any subject/topic, full of meaning or meaningless, things that have really been bugging you about me/us/the “fam” that you don’t know, but would like to know, anything philosophical or educational that you think I might have [...]

Who’s watched “Cinema Paradiso” yet?  Anyone?  If so (& when so) you must comment on what you think about it!!  Please.
I’ve seen it probably 10 times and still cannot keep from bawling my eyes out at the end when . . ..  Nope.  You’ve got to see the movie.
I especially think of Tom when I [...]

If I tried to show you photos of all of the different places the Andrews boys lived during the 8 years they were in north central Arkansas, I’d have to do a large photo album.  And, it wasn’t just during those years.  Between the three of them (not counting their oldest half-brother, long dead) and [...]

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 [...]

[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’ siblings [...]

My dear friends,
I am home (last night at dark) from an eight day, 575  mile (one way) trip alone to go stay with and care for my dear daughter, Rebecca, last week out near Dallas.  She spent nine days in the hospital with a severe kidney infection and belatedly discovered abscess in her right kidney.  [...]

Today I want to share our latest acquisition with you.  It’s our first one in a long while, actually, but when I found it, I felt peaceful and blessed and had to have it.
So, I brought it home and Tom and I searched out the best place to hang it in our home.  We decided [...]

In response to my last post ‘‘Story Tellers 2 – View From my Kitchen Sink,” Greg (England) wrote a comment, as he most always does.  It was not only funny and interesting, but fraught with such applicable truths about many males I know that I felt compelled to respond to it and to add [...]

These shortening days gliding slowly into fall when the shadows lengthen no longer bring so much deep sorrow and grief to Tom and me as we think of his beautiful daughter Kim and my loving dad, but as the years have gone by bring more lovely reflections and remembrances.
I’ve written here each September [...]

I was going to post some photos today and/or start my new series, “Story Tellers,” but cannot figure out how to work in Adobe Photoshop this morning to do what I need to do.  I shall have to wait on my own personal Photoshop guru, Mr. Andrews, who unfortunately, has to work, which we understand [...]