Wendy's Excellent Adventure

My friend Bob was in town this past weekend taking a trip with his girlfriend. She has friends that live in Kailua, on the windward side of ...

Jason and Dean went to the Big Island last weekend and saw Mt. Kilauea erupting. Apparently it started firing about 2 hours before they got...

My brother-in-law Dean is visiting us right now. This morning while I was upstairs working, he was chilling downstairs watching Shark Wee...

It's been a crazy week or two. First I was going nuts trying to finish and file a big brief that, for reasons that drove me crazy, came...

I have a terribly brown thumb. I love pretty flowers, but I don't have the patience to be a good gardener. I'll get really excited a...

I'm so grumpy today. Grumpy grumpy grumpy. I'm working on a brief on which we've already gotten more than a two week extension, ...

This is apropos of nothing except a song that just started playing on my iPod. I know that Willie Nelson has become something of a caricatu...

My brother Sam has an Australian coworker who explained that crocheted coat hangers are traditional Australian gifts, frequently given by ...

My in-laws are lovely people and they have always been incredibly kind to me and supportive of my relationship with Jason. I truly bear no ...

It may not have been glamorous , but it did the trick. We got the court of appeals to reverse a really bad district court decision. Mission ...

I can't decide if this is really cute or really disturbing...

I'm reading Doris Kearns Goodwin's book, Team of Rivals, about Abraham Lincoln.  I'm about 200 pages into it and am finding it...

Not much terribly exciting going on these days, but rather than write the brief I'm supposed to be writing, I'm procrastinating by...

I'm listening to Bob Marley right now while I work. I read on a pregnancy website that the baby can hear things and that it's goo...

I'm in Pasadena, California, right now. We have a case that is up on Thursday for oral argument before the U.S. Court of Appeals for ...

I used to think that bluegrass and communities of bluegrass musicians were found in small, select portions of the globe. Namely, the southea...

My mother works for the State Department, doing passport security and immigration type work. She was recently talking to some American busin...

I'm about three quarters of the way through The Yiddish Policemen's Union , and I'm absolutely loving it. Reading Michael Chabon...

I learned how to swim when I was a year and a half old. People at our swim club in Venezuela used to freak out at the sight of a little t...