Otherwise, you are just a lump of clay: The Marble and the Sculptor, Part One
I have some people in this virtual world that I am most pleased to be associated with. Some I've met in real life, and they've brought me a great deal of courage and insight as I make my way through this world. Others I interact with just through this here computer. I...
A post about many different things.
The hardest part of this job is the humanity. You know, when you become a human being everyone else around you starts to look that way too. It is easier to kill, dig a hole and bury when people have no value and no meaning. When my life is worth more than yours or...
Truth and Consequences
My boys are now six years old and their little brains are not so little anymore. They are learning to read - although a little behind their friends they are most motivated to learn to do it so they can read menus and the words on their video games. They are immensely...
I blend.
I've written before about being brown in a black and white world. It really is, I think an advantageous yet unfair position because I can sift in and out of both worlds, all worlds. No one knows what I am and more importantly, what side I'm on. I sit on the fence...
Thursday Rewind – A letter to a young-ish lawyer
I have been a practicing lawyer for a whole bunch of years. Like really a good number of years - more than five but less than 20. I graduated from law school in 1997 so you do the math. Well, I did take some years off to be with the kids, then I did contract work...
Travelling
On facebook today I saw a post on a story called Kafka and the doll. The story goes that Kafka, when he moves to Berlin, meets a young girl who is desolate over the loss of a beloved doll. Kafka helps the girl look for the doll and when he can't find it, he tells her...
Guilty as charged.
I have a very nicely paved road to hell. Immigrants, before they come to America, they imagine the roads are lined with gold, the buildings gleam with their inlaid silver, and that the cars exhaust is filled with perfume. They are not prepared for the reality of what...
Know thyself.
We think we do a decent job. We get up, get our coffee, get our kids off to school (hopefully with minimal long term damage to their psyche) and then head off to work ourselves. There, we sit at our desks and computers and we toil away. Maybe we make some calls or...
This lawyer’s life.
In a fascinating turn of events - I am busy. It's not that I don't have the will to write anymore. It's not that there aren't fascinating, interesting, exciting developments that are happening each day in the legal world. Oh, my friend. There are legions. But these...
From Birmingham, With Love.
It was fifty years ago that Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote his "Letter from Birmingham Jail" and I have posted about it before. It is, as I've said on many occasions, something that inspires me when I am feeling quite the coward. There is very little in my life that...
Then there is just love.
There is a lot going on in the news right now. Bombs have exploded at the finish line of the Boston Marathon. People are dead. Others are severely injured - run a marathon and then lose a limb or two. Speculation is rampant about who did this and why. My twitter feed...
You never get a second chance to make a first impression. But,sometimes its good enough just to get a second chance.
Every day it feels like I answer the same question over and over and over again "Mirriam, how can you do it? How can you defend child molesters and rapists?" I am always amazed that no one asks how I can defend murderers (probably because most folks know that some...
