Tag Archives: Mississippi

Remembering Six

Quote of the Day     “You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who can never repay you.”     –John Wooden Running through my usual websites today, I read with great interest on the Mississippi Press … Continue reading

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A Political Conversation

Quote of the Day      “When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.”       –Will Rogers As closely as I can recount it, here is a lunch time conversation I was involved in this week.  Enjoy. Person1–What was … Continue reading

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Horn Island

Quote of the Day         — Walter Anderson, “Rowing His Boat” c. 1955 Sweet and TF took TB, CCW and BW Buzz out to Horn Island Saturday afternoon.  It’s been six or seven years since I’ve been … Continue reading

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TB’s Book Ideas

Quote of the Day     “It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write.  Let them think you were born that way.”         —   Ernest Hemingway I’ve written about a few of the … Continue reading

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Travellinbaen Goes to Oxford

Quote of the Day      “I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.”    — William Faulkner Travellinbaen spent the 4th of July holiday weekend and a few other days recently in … Continue reading

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Open Secrets Lawyers Keep

NOTE–the link is outdated, but the whole article is posted previous to this one. Quote of the Day:     “Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.”    — Edmund Burke Every voter in Mississippi should read this article.  Then … Continue reading

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Mississippi Writers

Quote of the Day       “History has remembered kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.”      — Willie Morris I had occasion to enjoy an overnight stay at the Alluvian Hotel … Continue reading

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Road trippin through Arkansas

I had to go out of town for a few days and drove through the southern Mississippi Delta and eastern Arkansas in route to Little Rock.  Little Rock seems like a really cool town–definitely nicer than any city in Mississippi. … Continue reading

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