Showing posts with label personal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label personal. Show all posts
Sunday, January 15, 2012

Update: Born to run

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This year's Houston Marathon didn't quite go as planned. My day ended after just a  mile-and-a-half with a bum knee. I knew my knee ...

Born to run

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As y'all read this drinking your morning coffee and holding your doughnut, I'll be taking my annual tour of Houston by foot with som...
Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Another season has ended

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We've been here before. Once again we've come to the end of another soccer season. What began back in late July with recruiting...
Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Like father, like son

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Sometimes things happen and you can't even begin to get your head around them. Sunday was one of those days. Sunday afternoon my wife,...
Friday, September 9, 2011

A life well lived

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My wife lost her father this week. He had been sick for a while so his death wasn't entirely unexpected. Three months ago he suffered ...
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Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Life can be a circus at times

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Life in and around the courthouse can be a real circus at times. So why not go to the real thing? That's just what my wife, daughters ...
Friday, May 27, 2011

Another dirty job

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This past Thursday I had to appear in Montgomery County to enter my grandmother's will into probate. Since I also had to appear for a co...
Tuesday, May 24, 2011

So long, cowboy nuns

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This is a real bummer. The Monastery of St. Claire , located just outside of Brenham, Texas, is closing its gates for good this weekend . Wh...
Tuesday, April 12, 2011

A change in perspective

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My grandmother died last week. We buried her on Saturday. It was a lovely spring day - a day she would have enjoyed, I think. September 25...
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Friday, March 25, 2011

Closure?

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It is our realization that we are mortal that sets us apart from the rest of the animal kingdom. As we grow up we see those around us die. T...
Tuesday, November 16, 2010

See ya' next season

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And so it ends. Another soccer season has come and gone. It seems like just yesterday we were gathered together laying out fields and putt...
Monday, October 11, 2010

A much needed respite

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Last week was a rough one. After being in trial on Monday I was in a funk most of the rest of the week. Things began to pick up a bit on Thu...
Monday, August 9, 2010

That big white envelope

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I recently received a large plain envelope from the State Bar of Texas that said personal and confidential  on the front. I held it in my ha...
Thursday, July 1, 2010

Random thoughts driving back and forth to Livingston

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There are a lot of flea markets alongside US59 between Cleveland and Livingston - and they're all on the west side of the highway. Hel...
Thursday, June 17, 2010

Why do I do what I do?

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I was listening to one of my Johnny Cash CD's on the drive down to Jackson County this morning and couldn't help but push the back b...
Monday, May 10, 2010

Except during the hours of ...

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Apparently not this morning as the doors to the courtroom for the 212th Judicial District Court were locked at 11:30 am. On the other han...
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Monday, April 19, 2010

The decompression chamber

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After three days in trial last week I had a serious need for decompression. I stopped off at Onion Creek on White Oak Boulevard and had a S...
Thursday, December 24, 2009

A happy Christmas story

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Earlier this year I represented a gentleman down in Galveston who had been arrested on a drug case and placed on probation back in 2005. Unf...
Tuesday, November 3, 2009

My daughter and I

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Last night my oldest daughter got sick. To be on the safe side, my wife and I decided not to send her to school today. That left us in a qua...
Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Powerlessness

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As attorneys we are given a certain degree of control over other people's lives. This is true if you're a criminal defense attorney,...