and somehow my life purpose got compromised…

These past few days (weeks? months?) I’ve noticed something different about myself, my life, my reaction to things, like my joie de vivre is or has been compromised. If we measure the “something… Read More

If Santa brought you a Kindle… (guest post)

by Michael Taglieri E-book readers were one of the top gifts this year, and the fight over which one is the smallest/lightest/cheapest will continue for many more rounds. But there’s another issue that… Read More

It’s [spiritual] Sabotage!!!!

Few know whether the spirit that is guiding is a spirit of light or one we made up. If left unexamined, unchecked, and unconfirmed, these loosey-goosey beliefs and practices can get us in… Read More

fight or flight… and nowhere in between

“Oh Baltimore… Man, it’s hard just to live” – Nina Simone Every year that I lived in Baltimore, someone I knew got killed – yes, all seven years. Wrapped in my idealism, I concluded… Read More

home is where my habits have a habitat

I am grateful for space where I can be myself freely, express myself freely and be appropriately critiqued and molded into excellence, or a shadow of it, whatever and however excellence might mean… Read More

suffocating pragmatism becomes insensitivity… and then, you don’t belong here

For the past several months I’ve been acting as immigration advisor to my colleagues in criminal practice.  Though I’ve only been here a short time, somehow I’ve started to get cold calls from correctional… Read More

random thoughts on the R train to Astoria

thank God I didn’t get caught in the golf ball sized hail i should stop telling people NOT to go to law school. some people like torture. who am i to stand in… Read More

What is this thing… called AGAPE?

Yesterday, during a fairly unproductive day in the office (my job is to give advice to other lawyers. If they’re all on vaca, my work day is empty), I stumbled upon a conversation… Read More

Courtroom Meltdown

Some may have noticed my meltdown the other day (on Twitter). If you care, here’s what happened… I had met with a client in the holding cell area and I was begging him… Read More

lighten up. we’re all gonna die anyway

“lighten up. we’re all gonna die anyway.” I am tired of hearing this when I bring up someone else’s plight and oppression… This year, I tweeted while watching the Superbowl, enjoying commentary on the… Read More

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