Bob Dylan at the Lyric

Jamison KoehlerMiscellaneous

My wife and I have tickets to see Bob Dylan at the Lyric. This is good news. I like Bob Dylan. And although my wife may not be terribly enthusiastic about his music, she is always happy to go out. Besides, the Lyric is just a couple of blocks from our house. We won’t need to worry about parking. * …

The Coin, Rubbed Back To Newness

Jamison KoehlerMiscellaneous

Our son is home from college. The front door opens and there he is:  Tall and slender, like Telemachus standing in the doorway of the shepherd’s hut. There is the pile of clothes in his bedroom, the groan of pipes as he turns off the shower every morning, and the male voice rumbling from the floorboards beneath me. And then, …

“Darling, I Love You But Give Me Park Avenue”

Jamison KoehlerMiscellaneous

We live on Park Avenue. It is a beautiful tree-lined street in an historic part of town.  But it is not what you think:  It is not Park Avenue in New York City. And that is because we live in Baltimore. That is the thing about this city.  For every street, bridge, monument, or tourist attraction, there is a street, …

Loser Walking

Jamison KoehlerMiscellaneous

Guest Post By Raymond Koehler I have written for my brother’s law blog before and received a nice response. In fact, Jamie said my post got more responses than any of his own posts. One thing you must know about Jamie, or, to use his more professional sounding name, “Jamison,” is that he is the most appreciative brother you could …

These Hours Undo Me

Jamison KoehlerMiscellaneous

After dinner, my brother joins the younger generation in a game of Ultimate Frisbee. I opt to sit out of the game, joining our mother on the sidelines instead. My brother used to be the organizer. There was not a game played at Cape Cod – a game of Scrabble or Kick the Can or Capture the Flag — that …

I Will Miss The Conference Room

Jamison KoehlerMiscellaneous

The Academy Award-nominated documentary The Invisible War begins with the individual stories of men and women who had been raped while serving in the military.  We then see one of the women, Kori Cioca, driving across the country to come to D.C.  The movie climaxes with the meeting of the women in the conference room of our office in Georgetown. …

The Most Promising Law Students Know Latin and Greek

Jamison KoehlerMiscellaneous

My brother teaches classics at an inner city high school in Connecticut.  Just the other day he called me with a student on the phone.  Interested in a career in the law, the student wanted to know whether she should study business or political science.  I told her that her major did not really matter.  Take the classes you are …

No More Snow Forts

Jamison KoehlerMiscellaneous

Thirty years ago my wife and I hustled across Key Bridge from Georgetown into Rosslyn so that we could hole up in my apartment during a major snowstorm.  Stopping at a grocery store on the way there, we did not see another human being for the next four days.  We were cocooning before anyone else thought of that use of …

It Is 8 Degrees Fahrenheit

Jamison KoehlerMiscellaneous

It is 8 degrees Fahrenheit, and we have no heat on three floors of our new house. Our prime contractor realized he was in over his head and ran off with our money, leaving most of the planned work undone.  We had a brief standoff with the subcontractor, Neil Schoonover, who was halfway through installing HVAC on the top two …