BOOKS BY TOM LAWRENCE WU’S BYTE A MARY JO THIBODAUX NOVEL (Book two in the three-part series) 2018 Alan Brooks has thrown caution to the West Texas wind to launch a business that could make him a ton of money and have a significant impact on […]
From left: Michael Schulz, Sam Lawrence, Mary Prater, Celeste Carpenter Cox, Rick Cox, Art Doty Starkville, MS Memorial scholarship creates meaningful union at MSU By: Addie Mayfield A recent commemorative event honoring the late Mississippi State University alumnus Thomas R. “Tom” Lawrence, united members of the Will […]
Thomas Rainer Lawrence September 6, 1939 – March 22, 2017 He was infuriating, exasperating, ill-tempered, impatient, opinionated, and foulmouthed. He was also a clever, funny, devoted, kind, generous, down-to-earth, practical, and wise counselor, mentor, and friend. Tom Lawrence was a study in contradiction and complexity. Tom left […]
AS I LIKE IT! DECEMBER 16, 2016 SATURDAY SERIAL MIKE LOMAX P.I. EPISODE 7 Mike decided that trying to reason with Junior was like trying to teach a pig to sing; it’s a waste of time, and it pisses the pig off. He opened the bus […]
AS I LIKE IT! DECEMBER 14, 2016 STELLA STONE Chapter 8 EVERY CLOUD HAS A SILVER LINING When the cookout was finished, just after midnight, Mike Lomax had gone home. It took Stella and Bubba an hour or so to clean up the patio, cover the grill, […]
DECEMBER 5, 2016 Football Down South Football Quote of the Week “I’m a damn good football coach, but even I can’t make chicken salad out of chicken sh-t.” …..Coach Billy Mustin, Cleveland High School 1952 It is now official; Alabama will represent the SEC—a.k.a. Bama and the […]
Saturday Serial — December 3 MIKE LOMAX, PI EPISODE 5 The Saturday Serials always showed the last reel from the week before; usually, the hero going off a cliff in a wagon or being blown up in an explosion. To see what happened last week CLICK HERE: https://tomlawrenceblog.com/2016/11/25/saturday-serial-november-24 […]
NOVEMBER 14, 2016 FOOTBALL DOWN SOUTH Football Quote of the Week “I’ve found that prayer works best when you have big football players.” Knute Rockne, Notre Dame I want to get up front on something; I don’t think that Alabama is the best football team in America. […]
NOVEMBER 7, 2016 FOOTBALL DOWN SOUTH Football Quote of the Week “How do you get a former Ole Miss football player off your porch? Pay him for the pizza. While I was trying to find something for this week’s football quote I thought about many of the […]
AS I LIKE IT! OCTOBER 31, 2016 FOOTBALL DOWN SOUTH Football Quote of the Week “Always remember that Goliath was a forty point favorite over David.” Shug Jordan/Auburn The 2016 season rolled into week nine, with nine major conference teams still undefeated. Only five survived, and two […]
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