A Lawyer Mom's Musings on the Law and Motherhood
I’m having a midlife crisis. Or at least that’s what sportswriter Paul Flannery thinks I’m experiencing. He recently wrote a great article for Medium.com on extreme athleticism becoming the new midlife crisis. According to Flannery, Gen-Xers are coping with becoming middle aged (audible gasp) by getting into extreme fitness, big time. We’re talking marathons, ultra-marathons, triathlons, Cross-Fit, or whatever […]
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On 9/11, about 9,000 school children were within the vicinity of the World Trade Center. 9,000 children who had just arrived for one of the first days of the new school year. 9,000 children who had waved goodbye to their moms and dads only minutes before. 9,000 children sitting at their desks as their teachers […]
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Back when I was fresh out of law school, working my first job at a big law firm and living at a swank address in Dallas with enough disposable income to fully fund my designer purse habit, I was friends with another young lawyer who just so happened to have a baby. Did she want […]
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Have you ever met a nun? Before last week, my girls had not, which is shocking considering they spend their days in a Catholic school attached to a Catholic church. Even more shocking considering our Irish family has been Catholic since some druid dude over 1,500 years ago decided to abandon trees in favor of crosses. […]
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