Miscellaneous

There is a male voice on the other end when I answer the phone.  “I’m looking for a lawyer,” he says. He sounds pleasant. “Fine,” I say.  “How can I help you?” “First of all,” he says.  “I’d like to know about your experience as a lawyer.  I see from your website that you used [...]

As regular readers of this blog know, I look for any excuse to post a poem by my father. Here is one he wrote for his own father, a poem that has influenced everything I have ever written.  I reprint it now with his permission. Your desk, by the window Sitting at your desk, I [...]

Over the last week or so, I have written a couple of times about the guy who drove his car onto our front lawn and into our brick wall.  The incident has created quite a stir on our quiet little street in Arlington where things like this don’t usually happen. Complicating things is the fact [...]