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About travellinbaen

I'm a 40 year old lawyer living in Ridgeland, Mississippi. I'm several years and a couple hundred miles removed from most of my old running buddies so I started the blog to provide an outlet for many of the observations and ideas that used to be the subjects of our late night/happy hour/halftime conversations and arguments.

Please check out my new blog www.missingtheground.com

Posted on February 20, 2012

Here’s a link: missingtheground I don’t keep this page up any more, but I try to check in once a month or so.

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Hello, I Must Be Going

Posted on August 3, 2011

Quote of the Day: “Hello, I must be going. I cannot stay, I came to say I must be going. I’m glad I came but just the same I must be going.”–Groucho After three years and three months, 518 posts, … Continue reading →

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Stay Tuned

Posted on July 21, 2011

Quote of the Day: ” …look, man, I’ve got certain information, all right? Certain things have come to light. And, you know, has it ever occurred to you, that, instead of, uh, you know, running around, uh, uh, blaming me, … Continue reading →

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Travellinbaen Travellin’ Agaen

Posted on June 29, 2011

Quote of the Day: What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.      –Gabriel Garcia Marquez It seems to lean the direction of gluttony to be packin’ up … Continue reading →

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Missing in the Bermuda Triangle

Posted on June 24, 2011

Quote of the Day: “He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher… or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.”     –Douglas Adams On TB’s tombstone they will etch, “Here lies TB. Raconteur. Gadabout. Free thinker. Ne’er-do-well. … Continue reading →

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In Search Of…..

Posted on June 14, 2011

Quote of the Day: “You know whats going on in that Bermuda Triangle? Down in the Bermuda Traingle Elvis needs boats. Elvis needs boats. Elvis Elvis Elvis Elvis Elvis Elvis Elvis needs boats.“ –Mojo Nixon Every kid at Eastlawn Elementary … Continue reading →

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The Fantastic Mr. TB

Posted on June 13, 2011

Quote of the Day: “Mr. Fox: [sighs] Who am I, Kylie?  Kylie: Who how? What now? Mr. Fox: Why a fox? Why not a horse, or a beetle, or a bald eagle? I’m saying this more as, like, existentialism, you … Continue reading →

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Twitter is Dead (a foreshadowing)

Posted on June 1, 2011

Quote of the Day: “There is no danger that Titanic will sink. The boat is unsinkable and nothing but inconvenience will be suffered by the passengers.”     -Phillip Franklin, White Star Line Vice-President In all the TBU, there are only … Continue reading →

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Oh, Mama, Could This Really Be the End?

Posted on May 24, 2011

Quote of the Day: “We don’t need to talk about it anymore…The world has been warned – my it has been warned. We have done our share and the media picked it up. The world has been warned that it … Continue reading →

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Bumper crop

Posted on May 23, 2011

Proud of my thrivin’ daylillies. We share an identical lineage, on Daddy’s side. – Posted using MobyPicture.com

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