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Corona Journaling

Posted onMarch 23, 2020March 23, 2020Leave a comment

In Houston, I expect we’ll begin the next step up in Covid-19 this morning, or one morning soon. Not just closed businesses and staying at home, but what sounds initially a lot like like confinement. Once I read the rules Read More …

CategoriesThis and That, Writing

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Negative Visualization

Posted onMarch 14, 2020March 14, 2020Leave a comment

Before Caesar crossed the Rubicon, he offered one final compromise with the Optimates, the group in power in Rome lead by Pompey and Cato, among others. Pompey was ready to agree until his mind was changed by Cato’s arguments. Cicero, Read More …

CategoriesLaw

Court Stories and Novel Writing

Posted onFebruary 29, 2020February 29, 2020Leave a comment

Something I often want to blog about are my days in Court. I have had hundreds of adventures over the course of my career, as any trial lawyer has had, but one can’t just blog about them. You have clients Read More …

CategoriesLaw, Writing

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Memento Mori

Posted onFebruary 17, 2020February 17, 20201 Comment

I rise at 5 a.m. each day to write, and it’s like slaying a dragon each time. There’s the ‘resistance’, the voice that questions my abilities, worth, sanity. The resistance never sleeps. It never slackens, and it never really goes Read More …

CategoriesWriting

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The Bald Fat Guy at the Bar

Posted onFebruary 3, 2020February 3, 20201 Comment

The other Friday night I had a terrible confrontation–with myself. You wouldn’t have known it; nothing happened that anyone else could see. Melinda and I were in Brenner’s on stools at the bar. You know Brenner’s? It’s ‘Old Houston’, a Read More …

CategoriesEating, Writing

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Writing Our First Children’s Books

Posted onJanuary 20, 2020January 20, 2020Leave a comment

Perceptions Friends is volume three of a series published by Inklings Publishing. The series of books are designed to assist teachers and parents teach their children to read. It’s scheduled to launch in February. Melinda and I wrote two children’s Read More …

CategoriesWriting

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Chosen Pain

Posted onJanuary 20, 2020January 20, 20201 Comment

“Choose not to be harmed,” Marcus Aurelius wrote, “and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed—and you haven’t been.” He meant that if you don’t feel like you’ve been singled out or screwed over, then were you? No, because that’s Read More …

CategoriesThis and That

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You Think You Know Someone…

Posted onJanuary 1, 2020January 1, 2020Leave a comment

You think you know someone, especially a loved one. Someone you’ve known for most of your adult life. And, sometimes, you don’t really. On December 22, we lost my wife’s cousin, Marje. She was an independent woman. She’d worked for Read More …

CategoriesFamily

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Stoicism

Posted onDecember 25, 2019December 25, 2019Leave a comment

It’s Christmas morning, and I am up at 5:00 a.m. It’s not for children or to get the house ready. It’s not to prepare food. It’s because I’ve decided to try a ‘new’ philosophy, and it starts today. It is Read More …

CategoriesThis and That

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Baby Attorneys

Posted onMarch 26, 2019March 26, 2019Leave a comment

Baby Attorneys. It’s what experienced lawyers call new lawyers after they graduate from law school and are first sworn in — what the old call the new as they actually learn how to practice law. I refer to baby attorneys Read More …

CategoriesLaw

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Camping: A Dirty, Smelly Business

Posted onFebruary 27, 2019February 27, 20191 Comment

Camping can be a dirty affair. It was cold a few weekends ago, but Melinda was ready to go, so we went up to Huntsville State Park and stayed in a tent. We slept in all our clothes; Melinda was Read More …

CategoriesTravel

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India “Fox Pass”

Posted onDecember 17, 2018December 17, 2018Leave a comment

I kept a journal while traveling across India. Not really a diary: observations, criticisms of myself, and an outline of a romantic short story that occurred to me at the Kama Sutra Temples in Khajuraho. (I won’t include any close-up Read More …

CategoriesTravel

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Homesick

Posted onNovember 30, 2018November 30, 2018Leave a comment

Guest blog by Melinda Little I am homesick today. After being in India less than a week I am missing my life in Houston. • I am tired from jet-lag, which has been tremendous this trip: I miss my time zone. Read More …

CategoriesTravel

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Deep Thoughts from a Jet-lagged Westerner

Posted onNovember 28, 2018November 28, 20181 Comment

Guest Blog by Melinda Little I have only been in India a few days, but I am already overwhelmed by this country. (I blame part of that on extreme jet-lag from a twelve and a half hour time difference and Read More …

CategoriesTravelTagsdelhi, india

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Full Flight to Amsterdam on the Way to India

Posted onNovember 25, 2018November 25, 20181 Comment

From Houston to Amsterdam, we have a full flight. And a full, broken plane to begin with. The generator — whatever that is — is broken and we have to go back to “dock”. Then of course we have to Read More …

CategoriesTravelTagsairplane, full flight, india

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