Friends are important. Really important.
I was thinking about another benefit of friendship today when an acquaintance on the telephone began exploring deeply personal issues and crossing boundaries with his frustrations. I didn’t really know this guy that well, and I was a bit shocked at his behavior. Then it dawned on me, he is friendless. [...]
Don’t choke on your Ritalin when I say this, but I love to work with people who have ADD. Or, maybe I can’t stand working with people that don’t, the bores. Either way, I made a startling discovery today: I have deep respect for those that can run laps (and rabbit trails) around the others.
After [...]
Cresting the hill of 129 South just past campus, I was in a race to get home and crack open my Tennessee Law Instute update cold beer and get down to some bar studying. Simultaneously, I spotted the cop parked out under the bridge and my speedometer boasting 70–I knew I was screwed. [...]
…is that you can always think of a worse situation.
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WHOA! What a year this is going to be? We have milestone years in our life, but this one will perhaps be the most significant for me. Things to do this year:
1. Turn Thirty.
2. Graduate from Law School.
3. Take (and pass) the bar.
4. Have another baby (not me personally, of course).
5. Begin my professional career.
Here [...]
Pat Robertson doesn’t have to tell you that the world is a seemingly scary place to live right now. Natural disasters, Wars, and Terrorism are all around. Now, the threat of a pandemic is evolving into a perfect storm with the spread of the bird flu through the East. To all of this doom and [...]
I don’t want to strike fear in anyone. MSNBC, CNN, and FoxNews are such experts at distributing desperation that I would not want to diminish their impact. I just have one question: What usually happens when we travel? When I travel I usually get the sniffles–at a minimum and sometimes I get far sicker. [...]
As I have watched obsessed over Katrina’s devastation this last week, through my media center computer, I have really thought about the hobbies that I have in my life. The winds and the water came into these people’s lives and wiped away all investments that they had. Months and years of acquiring “things” was wiped [...]