I haven’t been writing much lately. Instead, I’ve been binging on The Good Wife. I hadn’t watched it for seven years, being very mistaken about its content. I thought it was a sappy soap opera type of program. Maybe in the back of my mind I knew it was about lawyers, but it never attracted …
I recently completed jury duty, and after the trial, the judge in the case suggested that I watch the program Making a Murderer by Moira Demos and Laura Ricciardi. So I watched it. And like many others who watched this program, I was shocked, disheartened, and dismayed by its portrayal of our justice system. The …
I’ve just completed serving on a jury. It was a four-day civil trial. Not at all complicated, in the broad scheme of things, but a very disturbing series of events in the lives of all the parties involved. I couldn’t blog about the trial while it was going on, but now I am allowed to …
Like most people, I usually start the New Year with a series of lofty goals for the next 365 days. Most of the really important ones are usually lost or abandoned within the first few days, partly because those goals involve changing habits that have been practiced for months on end. So let it be …