Women Mentors, Aging, And The Awakening Series

Posted on February 20, 2018March 7, 2018 by admin

When I graduated law school in 2000 (this relates to fiction, I promise), law school classes had only recently reached the point where roughly half the students were women and half men. For a lot of reasons, though, in actual practice men dominated certain areas. This was true in my area of practice, civil litigation. I’d been a lawyer for about a year when I had a case where the young lawyer on the other side also was a woman. When we went to court, often we were the only two wome...

From My Mother’s Bookshelves (Favorite Books Post No. 3)

Posted on May 10, 2014 by admin

My mom and dad had in their bedroom three large bookcases, which I thought of as my mom’s because nearly all the books were hardbacks she’d bought from book-of-the-month clubs she’d belonged to in the 1950s and 60s. The books had a slightly musty yet dry old paper and cloth smell I love to this day. Most of them had plain cloth bindings with titles that were barely visible on the sides, as the paper jackets had fallen apart and been discarded.My favorite book on those shelves was The Elegant Wit...