I have my stories that I tell, about memories of lives I have lived in old places. I’m not old, but I’ve been an adult for long enough now that memories of my earliest years out on my own in the world are turning from long, detail rich narratives into calcified representative stories, with rhythms…
Heading to Montgomery
. . . so the day has arrived that I travel in my suddenly carseat-less car (the seats below where the boys’ carseats usually are? so gross) towards a large hotel in Montgomery, Alabama, so that I can show how gosh darn good I am at memorizin’ things. The module I’m most worried about is…
Parent-Bashing in the Wake of Tragedy
A letter written after a terrible shooting: Dear people in my facebook feed whose first inclination, after hearing about the Colorado movie theater shooting, was to bash the parents who dared bring their children to a midnight showing of a Batman movie, My son Jack was born on a gorgeous spring day in 2008. From…
In Defense of “Law and . . .”
I’d like to emerge from my bar-study hidey hole to make the briefest of observations, one strengthened by this General Overview of Law I Will Never Never Know or Use Again that is commonly known by the shorter name of “bar review.” Very often I’m finding that if I don’t know the answer to a…
MILP Roundup #260
Magic Cookie blows it out of the water . . .