Originally written on 17 June 1996
I had a dream with my father in it. He was young. My age and he was very handsome. We seem to get along quite well. I seem to have also been travelling with another buddy who appeared to be like Nick Nolte. We were flying in a plane and [...]
January 1, 2008 – 12:01 am
My earliest memory is undefined as such. There is no one memory that sticks out from the rest. To me they are the pictures in the box in the attic of my relative’s houses. I look at them and understand what they are of and who is in the pictures. I don’t remember the time [...]
November 29, 2007 – 12:12 am
Society today demands that the writer raise his voice if he wants to be heard, propose ideas that will have impact on the public, push all his instinctive reactions to extremes
By William Lawrence
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Tagged Fredric Jameson, Italo Calvino, Jean-Paul Sartre, Martin Buber, Murray Bookchin, Samuel Beckett, society, Stephen Eric Bronner, T E Lawrence, utopia, Václav Havel, Walter Benjamin
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October 4, 2007 – 5:11 am
I brought an empty litre plastic bottle past the great TSA today, filled it up at the water fountain on the other side, and thus didn’t have to overpay for a basic need, transport of water.
That’d be the good news, because the bad news was encountering another blocked off area in an airport without access [...]
September 27, 2007 – 11:26 pm
You show up in a local coffee shoppe, or any place of business, and you will be greeted by the most jaded clerk ever. Irregardless of which shoppe, it’s sometimes perfunctory for normal folks to make weird out-of-place comments about inane arbitrary moments in time. This doesn’t happen in big cities. Folks there, normal or [...]
January 29, 2007 – 1:14 pm
My father bought a new pick-up truck in 1974. I grew up knowing that truck. Long story short, he bequeathed that truck to me in 1990. For the next six years, I drove that truck from middle America to the right, left, south, and north of all the continental united states. I even dragged it [...]
Just as it started it ends. What did learn? A month later, I’m looking back to see if it was worth it.
January 6, 2005 – 11:38 pm
Originally written in Spring 1996
Robert Penn Warren, in All the King’s Men, uses the crumbling of a political regime as background for Jack Burden’s search for self-confidence and self-esteem, which were really steps in his search for himself.
Men search. Jack learned that life was a series of unrelated events in which one’s actions were so [...]
April 15, 2004 – 11:07 am
Not everyone needs a history lesson, but there are those of you who may. Which most always includes me!
By William Lawrence
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Tagged Access Board, Accessibility, ADA, Americans with Disabilities Act, Architectural and Transportation Compliance Board, Civil Rights Act, CRA, disabilities, Federal government, RA, Rehabilitation Act, Section 1194.22, Section 504, Section 508, USG
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