Practicing Law and Life

Law school was the most intense two years of my life. (I was in an accelerated two-year program.) The anxiety it caused was overwhelming on a near-daily basis. The idea of going it alone day [...]

Four months ago I was at a fundraising event and I’d just met a gentleman when he asked me a question that I generally steer clear of discussing: “What do you do for a living?” I answered (with [...]

A disruption is a radical change in a process that causes something to not work in the normal way. It can be a business model, technology, a country or a person. No one or thing is immune from [...]

When someone is talking angrily to me, I don’t really hear what’s being said as I’m focused on how they’re saying it. Any of us can get caught up in “an emotion spin cycle.” What could’ve been a [...]

Have you ever been lied to? I have. It makes me angry and sad. Lies destabilize what they touch and can wreak havoc in a relationship. I discovered that I was being lied to earlier this year. In [...]

When I decided to go to law school it wasn’t because I had a burning desire to be a lawyer, right wrongs, or fight for the little guy. I’d graduated from college with a history degree, then moved [...]

Have you ever hesitated telling someone what you do for a living? I have. And for longer than I care to admit. In fact, for a number of years I wouldn’t ask the simple question “What do you do [...]

The term “hermetically sealed”  finds its origins in the Greek God Hermes.  He was known for sealing boxes that were impossible to open and hiding them so they could not be seen. While [...]

Have you ever looked closely at a world map with time zones? It’s not laid out as uniformly as one might expect. Many lines more closely resemble gerrymandering than easy to follow [...]

The genesis for wholehearted living is inside each one of us. It’s not about what we know, who we know, do for a living or how successful we are. Wholehearted living is about being willing to [...]