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Today marks the one thing I’ve done longer than anything else in my life. Twenty-nine years ago I cemented the best decision I ever made and married my wife, Kathy. Although I don’t think either of us is surprised we’re still together, I still wonder at times how she’s managed to put up with me that long.
While you can’t quantify what almost three decades with someone means, here’s a minute glimpse of what’s transpired in that time:
- 3 wonderful daughters — 24, 21 and just shy of 19 (who became well-adjusted adults despite their father)
- 3 Labrador Retrievers (including the current three-year-old)
- 1 Golden Retriever (the current canine queen of the house)
- 3 towns
- 3 rental apartments or houses
- 2 homes we’ve owned with the bank
- 9 vehicles (not counting kids’ cars)
- 5 Presidents
- 7 jobs
- Numerous foibles survived and disagreements surmounted
- Innumerable tears and tribulations
- Infinitely more moments of joy
- 2 lives still savoring better or worse, richer or poorer, sickness or health, as long as we both shall live
In other words, one happily ever after.
All that I am
All that I ever was
Is here in your perfect eyes
Snow Patrol, “Chasing Cars,”Eyes Open
Self Promotion
Blog Headline of the Week
Best Blog Line(s) of the Week
Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes
Bookish Linkage
Nonbookish Linkage
Sometimes you felt the trouble
Sometimes you felt down
Let this music relax your mind
The Rolling Stones, “I Just Want to See His Face,” Exile on Main Street
Evidently not having read the “not stealing” part of the Ten Commandments, a British man is being sought for copyright infringement on hundreds of Christian books.
The ads were/are annoying enough but Subway’s effort to trademark “footlong” ensures I won’t eat at any of their restaurants again.
Probably not the headline you want about you in a national legal publication: Defense Lawyer Holds Possible Record for Most Clients Sentenced to Death. Of course, maybe the headline doesn’t hurt as much when a profile about you n the NYT starts, “A good way to end up on death row in Texas is to be accused of a capital crime and have Jerry Guerinot represent you.”
Is Dora the Explorer an illegal immigrant?
To the question, “Are lawyers vilified too much or not enough?” my standard answer is “yes.”
Alan Dershowitz, ABA Journal (October 1991)
What’s the most useful book you’ve ever read? And, why?
My “most useful” book isn’t one book, it comes from a series of books.
You see, law students rely on a couple commercial devices to help survive. They include outlines, such as “Gilley’s” (short for Gilbert’s Law Summaries), and the books in the West Nutshell Series. Both have volumes covering particular areas of law. In fact, the publisher’s website indicates that are currently 156 books in the Nutshell Series. Gilley’s follows a trditional outline format for those who didn’t want to do or wanted to supplment their own outlines. The Nutshell paperbacks, in contrast, are entirely in a narrative format.
Gilley’s were great for cramming and test preparation but the Nutshells were handy summaries that you would use over the course of a semester or year. They were a particularly welcome break from the casebook approach of law school. Although I don’t remember the last time I picked one up, I still have half a dozen on my bookshelves, largely a sentimental attachment. And any law school graduate who claims study aids weren’t “useful” in making it through isn’t being completely honest.
Oh, sweetheart, you don’t need law school. Law school is for people who are boring and ugly and serious.
Elle Woods’ father (James Read), Legally Blonde
As I indicated, travel has keep internet access occasional at best. As a result, the weekly installments of Friday Follies and Weekend Edition didn’t make it on their normal days. So, with a bit of down time this morning, I’m offering Sunday Brunch, a combo of the two in one post that hopefully isn’t stale.
WEEKEND EDITION: 5-15
Blog Headline of the Week
Bookish Linkage
Nonbookish Linkage
FRIDAY FOLLIES 2.14
Given the number of f-bombs that were dropped and the way they were used, I think it’s fair to say this was a “hostile witness.”
Suggestion for the stoned: Do not stash your weed in the court papers from your March pot possession prosecution.
“Autistic boy charged with making terroristic threats in stick figure drawing.” (Jonathan Turley)
In death penalty case, prosecutor claims evidence of prisoner’s masturbation shows “[h]e will make a lousy prisoner if he’s given a life-sentence.” I’m sure the prosecutor was shocked the judge ruled the incident was not pertinent to the murder case. (Legal Juice)
An Oklahoma City doctor who injected herself with Botox (you know, short for a drug based on the toxin that causes botulism) was awarded $15 million in a lawsuit claiming the manufacturer failed to warn her that — wait for it — she might get botulism. (Legal Blog Watch)
If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value
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