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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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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Good morning, y’all. Do you have your photo contest photos out and ready to email to me for the Finding Direction Summer 2010 Photo Contest? The deadline is this coming Sunday, and while a lot of entries have been received, there’s still room for a few more. The contest judges are clamoring to get their [...]
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Well, I figured out how to “cure” my slump. I made my coffee a whole lot stronger this morning and drank more of it. I’m wired! To keep up the caffeine high I’m on, I’ve decided to go grocery shopping after lunch (which is always a downer in Picayune) in Slidell, next big town down [...]
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You know you’re in a slump when . . . (1) you peruse Facebook and old email forwards for good material for a blog post. (2) you’re too lazy to make fresh coffee and drink the leftovers from the last pot made. (3) when you’re too lazy to do even that! (4) you put off [...]
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Tom is currently contemplating whether to take up a friend’s offer to let him come put “THE BOAT” in the water behind his house, which is located on a small lake with access to Lake Pontchartrain near Slidell. He was thinking that he would do that as he took the boat out of the water [...]
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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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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