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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.

A Father-Daughter Conversation

Quote of the Day     “The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears: they cannot utter the one, nor will they utter the other.”     –Sir Francis Bacon I submit for your entertainment today, a … Continue reading

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Thursday Pickin (the end of the beginning edition)

Quote of the Day     “Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”     –Winston Churchill I hope everyone has enjoyed Thursday Pickin … Continue reading

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Things That Give Me a Charge (the celestial list)

Quote of the Day      This picture and others of the same subject can be found here. TB takes great pleasure in staring up at the night sky. I touched on this back in June in “Things That Give Me a … Continue reading

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The Christmas Season

Quote of the Day     “Ralphie as Adult: [chuckling] Ho, ho, but no matter. Christmas was on its way. Lovely, glorious, beautiful Christmas, upon which the entire kid year revolved.   —A Christmas Story TB is an unabashed fan … Continue reading

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Travellinbaen’s High Wealth Spending Consulting Service

Over the course of Third Week and Thanksgiving Holidays, TB had occasion to observe the spending habits of some wealthy folks. What I saw was as perplexing as it was astonishing. Continue reading

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Thursday Pickin XIV (Wednesday edition)

Quote of the Day       “In the silence of her mind, Quiet movements, well I can find, Grabbin for me with her eyes, Now I’m fallin from her skies.”     –The Guess Who, No Sugar Tonight I gotta … Continue reading

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Innovative Ideas

Quote of the Day     “I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, … Continue reading

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Disconnected Thoughts from Highway 49

Quote of the Day     “We’d like to thank Pascagoula for participating in this year’s State Tournament and wish Laurel well in the World Series.”     –P.A. announcer in the 5th inning of the 1983 Dixie Youth Baseball State Tournament … Continue reading

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All-time Pascagoula Football Team

Quote of the Day      TBuck (Pascagoula cornerback 1987-88)–“Hey, what do y’all think about this? Next year I’m gonna catch a punt and just stand there like it was a fair catch. Everybody will stop, then I’ll take off and … Continue reading

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A Short Story About Zeek

I have to tell this story on one of our blog contributors because of the little exchange between he, Larry and Sweet over in “Third Week Pickin.” We must have been about thirteen years old. Sweet, Zeek, Baen, Greeg, Waldo, … Continue reading

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