March 5th. My night is mostly sleepless, and the sleep I get is mostly restless. I have the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination (MPRE) from about 9AM to noon, and after that, some furious last-minute packing before a flight literally to the other end of the earth. It'll be Phoenix to Mongolia, pretty much a full day spent in one of ( Read more... )

Distance pains; separation brings a thorn ( Read more... )

Friends, netizens, countrymen -- lend me your ears! Valentine's Day approaches -- a day associated with love and couples ever since Chaucer hearkened back to the mythical Valentinus in his Canterbury Tales (and arguably in the collective unconscious by Lupercalia before that ( Read more... )

Once I wandered far o’er lofty hills, with Paradise my quest ( Read more... )

We often think of death as the last and greatest enemy ( Read more... )

I am an atheist ( Read more... )

I support Proposition 19, and legalization of marijuana in general. There are several reasons why:

• Marijuana has a wider range of therapeutic applications than legal drugs like alcohol or tobacco, it has low addictive potential (unlike alcohol and tobacco), and it's one of the safest drugs known to man, literally impossible to overdose on, with ( Read more... )

Thanks to Lindsey Houghton for inspiring this informal account ( Read more... )

It's here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SqC_m3yUDU

My long-time followers will be aware that I greatly enjoy the French Canadian classic dish poutine, which is pretty much french fries, gravy, and cheese curds.

A little over a month ago, however, I went to the Marmalade ( Read more... )

Let's take a man, Mr. X. Let's suppose he was born in about 1900 and died in about 1930, after founding a charitable organization ( Read more... )