Law Marketing/Networking

A couple of weeks ago, somebody appropriated my name, photograph and biographical information for over a month to tweet some of the most inane things you have ever seen on Twitter.  (And that is saying a lot.)  Although my impersonator avoided tweeting anything blatantly offensive or crude, it was still distressing to see my name [...]

Back in the days when I tried to write fiction, my greatest aspiration was to get a short story into the Best American or O’Henry anthologies of best short stories for the year. Alas, I was never successful. No nominations. No honorable mentions.  Not once. Not even close.

Given my need for outside validation, I was [...]

A creative writing teacher once asked my sister who her audience was:  Who is it that you write your short stories for?  When my sister responded that she wrote with her father and her brother in mind, the teacher looked at her and said, no, those people are not your audience.  They are your censors.

I [...]