Lawrence P Wilson (lpwilsonwriting)

Born and raised in the small town of Wild Rose, Wisconsin, I was privileged to have grown up in a time and place where families were close and the pace was easy.

My life centered around school, church and the Milwaukee Braves. Fish and friends were plentiful.

The future was wide open and secure.

My resume under “Education” reads; “attended here and there with no defined major area of study and no advanced degree.”

I’ve worked at such occupations as; farming, truck driving, firefighter and investigator.

I’ve jumped out of airplanes and de-beaked chickens.

I’ve picked pickles and known the working end of a shovel.

I once got a job in a nursing home, not knowing the difference from a sphygmomanometer and a bed pan.

Now I do.

I’ve seen people die and helped some to live.

I believe in God.

In the Spotlight

Saying Goodbye to Newspapers and Other Things

Cutting ties between the old and new is never easy. Especially when the old way is part and parcel of who we are and where we have been. The new represents only change and uncertainty.

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  Saying Goodbye to Newspapers and Other Things

  5 years ago

  Cutting ties between the old and new is never easy. Especially when the old way is part and parcel of who we are and where we have been. The new represents only change and uncertainty.

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  The Friday Catholic

  5 years ago

  Although the Second Vatican Council in the 60s removed the requirement that Catholics abstain from eating meat on all Fridays, doing so serves as a reminder that it was on a Friday that Jesus made the supreme sacrifice for us.

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  Just When You Thought There Were No More Miracles

  5 years ago

  In the awesome world we live, there are miracles all around us. From the migration of the Monarch to transplanting a human heart to unexplained cures for the incurable.

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  The Gift of Christmas

  5 years ago

  This annual celebration reminds us that happiness, peace, and love are gifts available to everyone. They only need to be opened.

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  Mental Health

  Laughing in the Face of Fear

  5 years ago

  Everyone's afraid of something. Check your fears at the door and enjoy this trip down phobia lane. You might just find that you really weren't afraid at all, or maybe you were, or maybe, you will be.

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  Thanksgiving

  For Your Service

  5 years ago

  Of all that we do in life, service to others just might be the most lasting.

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  Politics and Social Issues

  Making Illegal Immigration Go Away

  5 years ago

  Illegal immigration can be eliminated. Freedom, security and opportunity can be available for all who desire it. The problem is, it's going to take some work, by all involved, the immigrants, employers and most of all, our political leaders.

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  Fishing

  Fishing Heals All

  5 years ago

  Fishing has as much to do with the fish as baseball is about the ball. Rather, it is all about scenery and serenity, challenge and comradery, the rhythm of water and sun and wind. It is about the natural human.

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  Baseball

  Expectations of a World Series in Milwaukee

  5 years ago

  The World Series is destined to return to beer town. The Milwaukee Brewers have done the things that other teams have only tried. The difference is, the Brewers are getting it done. It's only a matter of time.

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  Drug Addiction

  Legal Marijuana, Miracle or Madness?

  5 years ago

  A group of people sat around the kitchen table asking where to find a drug dealer. They were not long-haired dropouts, or college kids looking for a party. They were middle-aged, educated and affluent. They were desperate to find something to ease the pain of a loved one suffering from cancer.

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  The Telltale something (ryhmes with heart)

  5 years ago

  The torment continues. Not so much under the floorboards but throughout the house and life. Anytime, anyplace.