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Storyteller, lawyer, professor. #LegalStorytelling, #LegalWriting, litigation/ #CivPro, legal ed. Views my own.
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“Fear” (1996)

Do you always watch for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always watch for the longest day of the year and then miss it.

Me: summer on campus is nice, so much less traffic Campus geese: hold my beer <stop traffic for a good five minutes crossing the street between the stadium and the med center>

🧵that expresses beautifully some resonant ideas for educators & writers, especially this: “Using this [generative AI] tech productively in ways that does not outsource your thinking arguably requires a deeper familiarity with thinking processes.”

Living in DC ages ago… - Seated near Martha Raddatz at Pesce in DuPont Circle - Shared an elevator with Cokie Robert’s in Bethesda; she complimented my mom’s purse - Seated near Gen. Wesley Clark at some Alexandria restaurant on a 1st date; made date seem more exciting than it really was

ChatGPT is down yet, amazingly, I am somehow still able to write.

The way we describe events affects how our audience processes them. Thinking of disparity between the Walker v City of Birmingham majority opinion’s statement of the facts and Justice Brennan’s dissent. Majority: “Violence occurred. Members of the crowd threw rocks that injured a newspaperman” 1/

Screw AI, I’m going to use MORE em-dashes & MORE “delve,” Emily Dickinson would want me to

RIP The Other Paper, Columbus’s alt-weekly, 1990-2011

Speak the truth, even if your voice shakes.

“Rather than jumping over someone to get what you want, consider reaching out your hand and taking the leap side by side, because life is better when we leap together.” www.npr.org/2025/05/23/g...