: About Me

M. R. Lawrence

Publisher & Editor

Midday

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CEO, Publisher and Editor of THE MIDDAY NEWS, a global media source for news & feature interest coverage of international, regional, national, state & local events with timely analysis & commentary, and retailing & eCommerce in print, electronic, and broadcast formats.

Many of the approximately 50 websites I publish are listed at The Midday Forum - http://MiddayForum.com

My passion is ...

photography, hiking, opera, daytripping ...

I know too much about ...

design and layout formatting.

My parents always told me ...

People in China are starving. Eat your string beans.

My childhood ambition ...

was to be a fighter pilot.

My favorite memory ...

is of visits with my ex's aunt and uncle.

Why I write ...

because people should know what I know.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

I'm switching between Fox, CNN, and MSNBC news as commercials dictate.

My first job ...

was cleaning the cages in a neighborhood chicken coop.

My best moment ...

was speaking before the Connecticut Republican Convention.

My inspiration ...

is Abraham Lincoln

Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: My great, true, personal garden story

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It was great, my first garden, and ambitious at that, done in the late spring early morning sun. And it was all mine. At least the work was. A neighborhood girl I met nearby invited me to her backyard on Hartford's Hudson Street. I think she was visiting a relative in the 2-3 family house and don't remember seeing her again after that day. We played for a while there and somehow started picking a few plants. She had to go inside, and well, I had been invited, so I stayed and picked up where we both left off. I created my little farm from scratch, grabbing nearby flowers and snapping off sm...

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