I’ve spent the better part of the last twenty-five years pleading a case. My office was a courtroom where I…
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High Water Mark
As I write this blog entry, the city of New Orleans is marking the thirteenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. On…
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Summer “Daze”
In the world of family law, summer is a battleground. Parents jockey for position in an attempt to manipulate visitation…
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Here Comes the Rain Again . . .
Raise your hand if you played in the rain as a kid? We did – all the time. In fact,…
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Does the “Beginning” Ever End?
One of the things “they” say after losing a child is that the second year is worse. No way. I…
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When you’ve lost so much – how do you manage to be grateful?
My daddy was an ironic mash-up of 70’s flower child and Sicilian Catholic. In the 70’s and 80’s he had an annoying habit of preaching the gospel of “PMA.” For those of you who might have been subjected to this particular brand of torture in your own lives, you will recognize “PMA” as standing for “Positive Mental Attitude.” For every negative comment that Daddy caught us uttering, he would literally make us repeat the opposing positive statement out loud ten – TEN – times. You recognize the formula. It takes ten – TEN- positive thoughts/actions/comments to erase the energy created by just one negative thought/action/comment.