From Mother Nature Network authored by Robin Shreeves: “My friends Dana and John perfectly practice what the Rev. Jack King referred to as “scruffy hospitality.” Their kitchen is small. The wood cabinets are dark and a few decades old. Spices and jars for sugar and flour line the countertops because there’s nowhere else to put them. […]
Category Archives: Family & Personal
It’s Time to Prioritize Suicide Prevention in the Juvenile Justice System
From Juvenile Justice Information Exchange authored by Judge Ginger Lerner-Wren: “As the presiding judge of Broward County, Florida’s Misdemeanor Mental Health Court, I believe it is important to promote access to community care and recovery. Therefore, mental health literacy is a key facet of court process. In this regard, I provide community mental health resource books […]
Bias, She Wrote The Gender Balance of The New York Times Best Seller list
From The Pudding authored by Rosie Cima: “Last week, after an Uber board member’s wisecrack and the interruption of Senator Kamala Harris during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing, The New York Times asked women to share their own experiences. More than 1,000 responded, offering up vivid anecdotes of times they had been interrupted, penalized for speaking […]
‘Is There a Man I Can Talk To?’: Stories of Sexism in the Workplace
From The New York Times authored by Susan Chira and Brianna Milord: “Last week, after an Uber board member’s wisecrack and the interruption of Senator Kamala Harris during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing, The New York Times asked women to share their own experiences. More than 1,000 responded, offering up vivid anecdotes of times they had been interrupted, […]
Legal Career Clarity Course: THREE DAYS [at most] and counting!
You like being a lawyer but…you don’t love your current job? Yes? You’re curious whether there are better options within the profession…. THERE ARE. You invested SO MUCH to get where you are today. Don’t stop short of reaching – actual satisfaction – (JOY even!) from a day’s work. It IS actually possible. Let Heather […]
How to Respond to Negative Online Attorney Reviews
From Attorney at Work authored by Mark C. Palmer: “Take a moment and step back from the situation. Evaluate. Attacks on our personal and professional abilities can hit close to home and elicit a dramatic, immediate response. It’s in our nature to defend ourselves and our work, even from the tritest comments. You may feel desperate to […]
From Incidents With Rattlesnakes to Broken Jaws, Texas Public Schools Are Immune from Lawsuits
From Houston Press, authored by Margaret Downing, dank image (pun intended) by Daniel Kramer: “Attorney Holly Griffith Terrell of Pearland, who is “of counsel” for Martin Cirkiel, got into this kind of law after finding out 12 weeks along in her pregnancy that her daughter, now five, had special needs. ‘When I was a kid, all the special-needs […]
Meet the First Lady of Texas Cannabis Law
From Houstonia authored by Sarah Rufca Nielsen (killer image by: Robert G. Gomez): “SOME DAYS ARE LONGER AND MORE TRYING THAN OTHERS for attorney Lisa L. Pittman. One of those was May 2, when the Texas House of Representatives held its first hearing on HB 2107, which would, she says, improve and expand the state’s fledging medical marijuana […]
Legal Career Clarity Course: TEN DAYS [at most] and counting!
You like being a lawyer but…you don’t love your current job? Yes? You’re curious whether there are better options within the profession…. THERE ARE. You invested SO MUCH to get where you are today. Don’t stop short of reaching – actual satisfaction – (JOY even!) from a day’s work. It IS actually possible. Let Heather […]
Self-Care for Women of Color At Work
From Ms. JD authored by Alnisa Bell: “’Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.’ — Audre Lorde The unfortunate reality for many women working outside of the home is that dynamics within the home still require that many women shoulder the burden of household chores and caregiving […]
