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Goodbye to All That, Part 6

by Lawrence 08.27.2010
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My wife took my story with all the quiet dignity and reservation of a pissed off God. I couldn’t quit until I had found something else, and my gut killed me as I realized that I’d have to go back into the office again and again until then. I moved my workspace into the locked [...]

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Brother Joseph Belanger

by Lawrence 06.10.2010
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Of the two positive male role models I’ve had in my life, one is my step-father and the other was Brother Joe. In many ways, I’ve come to think that my step-father helped lay the foundation of the person that I’ve eventually become and Brother Joe was the one that helped me begin to imagine [...]

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Goodbye to All That, Part 5

by Lawrence 03.03.2010
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I sat there for a moment, wordless and trying to comprehend what she had just asked. “Of course I shower,” I stammered. “Every day.” “Okay, then,” she went on. “Do you clean yourself after going to the bathroom?”

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Goodbye to All That, Part 4

by Lawrence 02.19.2010
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We moved into our house in July of 1999, and between then and January of 2000 the strange shivering fits would come and go with no seeming pattern or regularity.

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Welcome to Putnam County. You’ve got a purty mouth.

by Lawrence 02.16.2010
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My wife and I live in Putnam County, New York. Were you to drive through it you would be struck by its natural beauty – rough, rocky highlands dotted by lake after lake that serve as New York City resevoirs.

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Goodbye to All That, Part 3

by Lawrence 02.08.2010
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After much unneeded stress and conflict we ended up buying a house in the Hudson Valley that my wife has hated from Day One and has progressively lost its attraction for me.

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Indiana Jones should just stay home

by Lawrence 02.06.2010

This past weekend I decided to rewatch Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. I had only seen it once before when it came out on DVD and wanted to give it a second shot out of fairness. I’m a huge fan of the Indy movies and saw each of the original three [...]

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Goodbye to All That, Part 2

by Lawrence 02.06.2010
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When I got home, needless to say my then-fiancee wasn’t impressed by the diagnosis. She’s never had much regard for medical doctors and reflexively distrusts them, but I still placed a pretty unquestioning faith in them and proceeded to try to live with my “lactose intolerance.”

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Goodbye to All That, Part 1

by Lawrence 02.05.2010
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Some of the things I’ll be talking about on my blog require some degree of contextualization. Without it, many of my thought processes will appear to be a bit disjointed if not out and out unhinged. So, to begin… All of my life I’ve suffered from what might charitably be called “food issues.”  Not that [...]

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