Time to Revisit Pittsburgh

by | Dec 30, 2019 | Words

Compared to my first residency, I returned to Pittsburgh this time feeling more confident that I knew what I was doing. The agenda was packed and I was determined to get the most out of each day. Once A Mentor, Always A Mentor I got to work this semester in a very...
It Was Time (to go back to Dublin)

It Was Time (to go back to Dublin)

by | Sep 24, 2019 | Words

I flew across the Atlantic for the first time in 2000 to run the Dublin Marathon on October 30th.2000.  I went again in 2011 with close friends from Pittsburgh, whom I met on that trip.  It was there, at an American Bar Association conference that a CLE seminar...
It Was Time (to get serious)

It Was Time (to get serious)

by | Jul 30, 2019 | Words

After 30 years of writing adorable sentimental poems for sad and happy occasions (or, more often, my desk drawer), my work and I needed a critical audience: an audience with no inhibitions about calling out a bad line-break or an all-too-easy ending.  It was time...