What really got me riled up was this instruction, which I’ve received a number of times in a number of “Tips for Professional Women” contexts: Practice lowering your voice. If you want to do public speaking, you have to have a lower voice. This takes work, to change your natural voice, but get it as…
Category: Lawyerin’
What Does One Say?
At our local bar meeting Friday, the first thing we did is said a prayer to Jesus Christ. We do this at the installation of judges, at Chamber of Commerce meetings, at every city function or lawyer meeting I’ve ever been to. Screw all you Jews and Muslims in this town! You pray to CHRIST…
Rainy July
It’s early morning. The windows are fogged – we had more rain yesterday. I think for the bulk of us across the country, this summer shall go down as the Season of Unending Rain. Except for it ruining the Fourth of July, I haven’t minded much – my inclination, still, is to lounge at all…
Memorial Day Weekend – She Loves It, She Loves It Not
My *least* favorite thing about this weekend is the stupid preaching. Argh with all the preaching. “This weekend isn’t about grilling burgers with friends, you selfish jerk, so honor your fallen soldier, you spoiled rotten lazy brat who doesn’t care about The Selfless Troops as much as I do!” Yeah, because a finger-wagging facebook post…
Busy busy busy
I flew home from Tampa on a windy February day, and landed right into a whole mess of work that’s still sort of running my life. To top it off, Saturday was our lovely town’s 24th annual chili cookoff/cancer fundraiser. Our law firm sponsors a booth, and I was in charge of clean-up. I spent…