I bought the painting, “Full Bloom,” of the old wood framed house 10 years ago because it reminded me so much of the house I grew up in out on the farm east of a typical west Texas town. Yet, when my mom came to visit, she didn’t see any resemblance at all, and she [...]
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“The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise” A Facebook friend posted this quote this morning and I thought it was very good. I do not know the author, so cannot attribute [...]
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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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Time had streamed rapidly by, gliding from a cold winter, into wet spring and now into the morass of hot, humid heat called summer on the Mississippi gulf coast. Tom remained land locked. He fretted and frittered his time away, necessitating me taking a longer time away from home than usual. It was too sad [...]
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This has been a most stressful week for me, with no modem/internet for four days, my blog host moving all of us TheoBloggers over to a new server, with us having some down time here on my blog, and assorted family emergencies and crises. Being an in-betweener, with my mom still with me, having grown [...]
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[Note: I'll start back on the Arkansas Memories Tour of 2009 next week. There are a lot more stories to tell from that tour, the next chapters being all about when "the boys" lived in Cotter, AR. For today - thoughts on this "new" year.] Every January I take stock of my life a little [...]
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It's all about seeking out a better way, while exploring the less traveled side roads along the path . . .
I want you to leave here feeling better about yourself than when you dropped by, having either learned something new, thought about something differently or having just had a good laugh or two.
Dee Andrews, Esq.
Attorney, Former Journalist, Author
South Mississippi