Category Archives: Life

A Perfect Summer

Quote of the Day:     “Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance.”     —Yoko Ono Fall brings excitement. A … Continue reading

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Funny Stuff Happens Sometimes (when you’re not lookin)

Quote of the Day:     “Filmgoers are starved for new ideas, voices and visions.”     Robert Redford It’s amazing how funny happens when you are tuned in to the possibility even if you are not consciously looking for it. … Continue reading

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Memories of Summer Nights

Quote of the Day:     “Hold on a minute. Don’t get out. I’ve got a feelin its about to come on.”     –Larry to TB, having a psychic moment circa 1986 correctly anticipating his favorite “Fort” song being … Continue reading

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The Walk of Shame

Quote of the Day:     “The only shame is to have none.”     –Blaise Pascal TB always gets good blog material on my frequent trips to Oxford. Sunday morning I was in charge of breakfast so I drove … Continue reading

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Pastoral Mississippi

Quote of the Day:     “He must always be a stranger to the place he loves, and its people.”     –Willie Morris No, its not the name of a town, but if TB decides to write a novel … Continue reading

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Travellinbaen and the Wanderlust

Quote of the Day:     “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch … Continue reading

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Things Learned From Mom (the lesser list)

Quote of the Day:     “God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.”     –Rudyard Kipling A day late, but Mom’s don’t hold that sort of thing against you: Brag about your kids to your friends, in … Continue reading

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Questions That Keep Me Up at Night (the lesser list)

Quote of the Day:     “The Answer to the Great Question of Life, the Universe and Everything…Is…Forty-two.”     –Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy The mind of TB is seldom at rest. This doesn’t mean it is … Continue reading

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TB, the Sucker

Quote of the Day (vol. ii):     “Every crowd has a silver lining.”     –P.T. Barnum When one undertakes to maintain a blog of conversation, observation and instigation, an unspoken underlying assumption must be present in the writer’s mind … Continue reading

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Travellinbaen Goes to Washington

Quote of the Day:  “It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even … Continue reading

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