Seventy Percent of lawyers don’t want to be lawyers. I’m sure I’m underestimating. There’s something about being a lawyer that makes you long to be doing something else. In my experience, that “something” usually is other lawyers. Your humble servant, for instance, has been toiling in the vineyards of the law for lo, these fortyContinue reading “A Pearl of a Comic”
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Waiting for Word
There’s a scene in the movie Elizabeth where we see the young princess standing in a large courtyard where she’s being held captive. A lone horseman gallops toward her and she thinks he’s coming to tell her that she’s going to be sent to the Tower of London. Instead, he jumps off his horse andContinue reading “Waiting for Word”
Women of Mystery
Although I am a man, I am jealous of the reputation of women in mystery. In particular, I want women to be portrayed as real people in mystery stories. I have to say, I am more often disappointed than not. Take your average spy thriller (which is a sub-genre of mystery). Usually you have aContinue reading “Women of Mystery”
