Lawrence Brown:  

Hey! Thanks for stopping by, hope all is well with you. In High School you knew me as Larry. Today, all my friends call me Luke. After almost 35 years, you begin to wonder. What became of Dave? What is Nancy doing? Who was successful? Who got married? Kids? Who became Doctors? Lawyers? I don't often look back, but it is amusing to think about it. I now visit New England three or four times a year on business. As I grab dinner at an area restaurant I wonder; are any of my classmates are in the room? Is my waitress the son or daughter of someone I know? Would I recognize anyone? Would anyone know me? I was not much in high school, skinny, runt of the litter. I slept through more math than I stayed awake for. Probably all those carbs they fed us in the school lunches.We graduated before ADD was diagnosed or treated in children. If I had been diagnosed, I would have been the poster child. I went to classes with the brains and hung out with the burn outs. My hair length lived at my shoulders and I could have been a stunt double for a young John Lennon. I did not build any lasting friendships in high school. I have been too busy, too engaged, too self involved. Like high school, it was a missed opportunity for me. I didn't go to college straight out of high school. I watched most of friends that graduated in 79 flunk out in their first or second semester. I worked, played in bands that went nowhere. The drummer from one of these made it. You may remember The Pixies. David Lovering and I shared the stage at Jaspers before it burned down. After about 3 years of minimum wage and minimum effort, I went to school nights at Northeastern. Transferred to days at U-Lowell for Engineering. About 6 weeks later, I was given an oppo...Expand for more