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| Blog Name: | Gary Presley's Blog |
| Url: | http://www.garypresley.com |
| Language: | English |
| Topics: | writing, memoir, essays |
| Description: | The web presence of Gary Presley, author of Seven Wheelchairs: A Life beyond Polio and sometime contributor to Salon.com, Notre Dame Magazine, and the Washington Post. |
| Popularity: | 89 Followers |
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The "Vegetative State" That Isn't
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Image linked from The New York Times storyPerhaps the ugliest public fight over a comatose person was that surrounding Terri Schiavo. No one wanted to see politicians from Bush on down, and across ... |
Year of the Dog, VI: Pack Dynamics
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We have two adult Boston terriers who have seniority in this house. Daisy the Boxer is the junior member of the pack. My wife is big on "pack theory," and when anything upsets the dynamics of the h... |
Year of the Dog, V: Can Boxers Be House Trained?
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We are beginning to doubt it, and we are saved from flights of cursing only by our long-term (and pre-Boxer) plans to remove carpet from the lower floors of our house. Carpet mixes poorly with whee... |
An Essay on J. D. Salinger
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Like so many others of my generation, I read Catcher in the Rye as a teenager. I don't remember being deeply affected by the novel, but then again I was a somewhat self-absorbed and relatively unsc... |
Boiled Eggs and Other Inconsequential Matters
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I don't eat meat, even to the point of avoiding meat byproducts like broth and gelatin and, well, it pays to read labels. "The Original & Genuine Lea & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce" contains anchov... |
"Attacking the Truth"
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I often think aloud ... actually, at the keyboard about the concept of "truth," which I suppose relates in a measure to the concept of reality.Which in turn is probably both infinite and quarkian.L... |
Leaving Home
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Click here to donate."Run away from home? Who, me?"It's a joke around our house that I would get no more than 28 miles distant -- that's not far enough to reach a land with tropical weather, a plac... |
Seven Wheelchairs Made Accessible, Finally
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I heard from a reader last week -- let's make that, a listener -- who said, "Recently, I listevned to your book which I downloaded from the National Library Service for the Blind."While I couldn't ... |
The Opposite Field: A Review
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THE OPPOSITE FIELD: A Memoir By Jesse Katz 352 pp. Crown Publishers $25.00Reviewed by Gary PresleyAnyone can write a memoir. No, let’s say, Anyone has the stuff of memoir in a life lived, but it... |
"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”
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There is an excellent piece in the New York Times, Tara Parker-Pope's interview with Michael Pollan, that's worth reading.Strangely enough, the Times almost simultaneously ran a story "The New Age ... |
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