I am a whiny sick person. I have a low tolerance for pain and, with a young child, a high propensity for getting sick these days. This time I have a cold. No fever, no chills. And I still missed a day of work because there was so much congestion sitting in my sinuses I [...]
We have all done things that we realize (maybe immediately, maybe with the benefit of time) was a critical error. Things we would give anything to be given a do-over. When these errors are in our professional life, they can be devastating. We have all made mistakes, me included. Plural. Mistakes. Some big, some bigger. [...]
As an attorney who has been practicing for over a decade now (egads!), I have finally learned to allow the ebbs and flows to, well, ebb and flow. I have (mostly) managed to stop worrying when work is light and to use that ebb-time to more enjoy my personal life, knowing that a flow will [...]
Nola starts her day aware that she has an early morning appointment. The appointment goes off without a hitch. Well, except for the tears. Nola’s client is teary over the demise of her marriage. The client leaves, but the negative feelings stay with Nola. She moves on to reading her e-mails, including a reminder that [...]
I was preparing to write a quick post explaining that lately I have been uninspired with writing, and until that passes not much activity would be going on here. But then this morning, doncha know, I was inspired. I had to go to another attorney’s office to review documents today. The building I had to [...]
I have begun a list in my head, not even on paper yet. I have gotten a haircut and bought a bathing suit. Today I will go to the library to check out Sue Grafton’s “T is for Trespass” for the flight and I will get a pedicure. Although this upcoming trip isn’t technically a [...]
I toss and I turn. I twist and I twitter. And yet I still can’t get my mind settled. I don’t know the answer to the age old question: What is happiness? In my life, I have the quintessential things that would answer this question: The love of a doting husband, sweet baby girl and [...]
I wax philosophical about my law school days. They were probably more akin to the experience most people have in college. It was in law school that I first lived on my own and really began to know myself and test my mettle. It was also when I was a groupie huge fan of Big [...]
I just returned from lunch at Galatoire’s and am writing while still under its magical spell. I went with two friends, one of which is an attorney I work with and the other someone who once worked in my office. Her betrayal at leaving the firm, this many years later, is still not forgiven. Anywho, [...]
When I stress, it shows in my fingers. I don’t bite my nails; I don’t smoke and have yellow nails as a result; I don’t crack my knuckles. No, my vice is that I pick my cuticles. Until they bleed. Then I pick some more. In a good week, my fingertips will be in “healing [...]