Handcuffed To My Bed

Handcuffed To My Bed

Would that it were so! That might have been interesting. But alas… it was not my bed… I was handcuffed to work that was sucking my soul. I loved law school. The reading, the research, the classroom, the debates, the arguments. All of it. But within months of...
For The Sheer Love Of It

For The Sheer Love Of It

I was carried away by the sound. Beautiful beyond words. Beautiful beyond anything I had ever heard. Each note, each passage, more glorious, more magnificent than the last. A soaring concerto. A virtuoso violinist. I was the commencement speaker at a high...
Labor On

Labor On

We just celebrated Labor Day in the United States: A celebration of work and workers; an opportunity to honor labor; the chance to celebrate the fulfillment of our effort. Or perhaps, more realistically, an escape from tedium; a long weekend away from the...

That Will Not Work

If you find yourself saying, “Yeah, that will work,” you’re likely traveling down the wrong path. Because that’s code for, “Yeah I could suck that up.” “I could get by with that.” Which is bad. Because life is way too...