Writing is my passion and I write every single day. I've been writing stories, newsletters, articles, screenplays, books, poems, summaries, play reviews - since I was 14 years old and went to work on my high school newspaper. For the past 12 years I've been writing and publishing my work everywhere. I've written close to 3,000 personal and professional blogs. I started writing business blogs in 2011, primarily for attorneys. I've also written six novels, a memoir, a cookbook, and a guide for paralegals called Paralegal 411: Tips Tricks and Timesavers for the Litigation Paralegal! Check out my Amazon page.
A well-trained, knowledgeable litigation paralegal should always be thinking of ways to make the attorneys’ lives easier and case handling more efficient. Every case is different, and every attorney is different, so it’s important to be flexible and ask questions.
Michael has been working in the restaurant industry since he was 15 years old, and now he is a cook at Kindred, an upscale restaurant in Atlanta that opened recently. What sets Michael apart from most cooks is that he has only one hand.
One Easter when my brother and I were small and she still had a lot of energy, she thought it would be fun to take soot out of the fireplace and make “bunny tracks” from the back door to the living room where our Easter baskets were waiting for us. Being very small, we were convinced the bunny had someone magically entered the house and left our baskets. Mom never repeated that, though, because she said getting the soot out of the carpets was a nightmare.
Nothing in the world tastes better to me than my mother’s cornbread dressing. (In the north y’all call it stuffing.) I fixed the dressing this afternoon, and I was sorry I wasn’t able to give Mom spoonfuls and let her taste. She would always taste and say “add more onion!” or “more salt!” or “add another egg, it’s too dry!” After years of making it, though, I hope I did her proud.
Comfort Farms reaches veterans through a unique approach, agro-cognitive therapy. Comfort Farms helps veterans heal from war by putting them to work growing and harvesting crops and caring for the many animals on the farm. Wrestling with typical farm problems is not unlike wrestling with combat, a world most veterans know well.
Our family histories are told in stories, and the heirlooms remind us of those stories. The chips and tears and scratches in family heirlooms speak to the grit, ingenuity, and perseverance of those who have come before us.
My mother explained to me how Memaw felt like the flour sacks made terrific aprons because the fabric was sturdy yet pliable and easy to sew. Today, we don’t have any dishtowels made from that exact material, but we have been able to save a couple of those flour sack aprons, and I treasure them.
In the 1920s and 1930s in the United States, life before technology may have been simpler but cooking and housekeeping were difficult and time-consuming. Two books from that time period yield a lot of information about food and cooking, and also about women’s roles in general. Books such as The Blue Stocking Cookbook (1923) and Her Book (1932) spell out how to cook savory dishes not often found in today’s cookbooks – for instance, Brain Croquettes and Rabbit Fricassee.
I’ve made biscuits that the dog wouldn’t eat. I’ve made biscuits that were the consistency of well-chewed chewing gum. I’ve made biscuits that were just a few molecules away from a doorstop. I have made biscuits that looked good but tasted like paper. Finally, after years of trying, I gave up.
"My cakes are science and art united. It can't just be pretty."
Jon Jackson isn’t the first person to think that food can be healing, but for him, that’s literally true. He recently discovered that growing food heals him and other veterans who suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. “The earth is healing and food is healing,” Jon says. Although he’s a native of New Jersey, Jon has always loved gardening. In 2015, after his 6 tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan as an Army Ranger were over, Jon decided to turn his gardening hobby into much more..
NEW ORLEANS — Christopher Verdin Jr., whose arrest in May by the Terrebonne Parish Sheriff’s Office was recorded in a video that went viral, has filed suit against the department and three officers. Verdin’s lawsuit claims that during the arrest, deputies Charles Cook Jr., Joe Cehan III and Cody Guilbeaux violated his constitutional rights. Verdin claims the arresting officers used excessive force and he was assaulted and battered. V
CHICAGO — A recent ruling by a federal judge that non-Illinois residents cannot participate in a class-action suit has far-reaching implications, according to a local attorney. The ruling came in the case of Joshua DeBernardis v. NBTY and United States Nutrition, the makers of the supplement Body Fortress 100 percent Glutamine Powder.
BELLEVILLE – U.S. News & World Report has named the firm of Thompson Coburn as the best firm in the nation for railroad law. Best Lawyers also gave the firm the highest ranking in railroad law. The rankings are based on interviews with clients and other attorneys. The firm has 26 attorneys and 10 paralegals working on railroad cases, one of the largest practices in the United States.
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) – Several friend-of-the-court briefs have now been filed with the U.S. Supreme Court in the lawsuit brought by Mark Janus, an Illinois state government employee who feels union dues should not be taken from his paycheck since he is not a member of a union. The Supreme Court indicated last fall that it would take up the case of Janus, who filed suit against the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) and the Teamsters, asserting those uni
ST. LOUIS (Legal Newsline) – An appeals court has instructed a federal court to reconsider the case of a former worker at Sysco who filed a federal lawsuit over allegations of racial discrimination failure to promote, and a hostile environment who initially lost her case because she failed to file her charge of discrimination within 180 days of the alleged discrimination happening.
“We know vets feel great farming but there’s a reason why. There’s a reason why vets are navigating toward putting their hands in the dirt. A lot of vets come back from war and the number one reason we get depressed is because we feel like we’ve lost our edge. Our edge is the ability to stay sharp and make split-second, critical decisions on the fly, to really manage stress. For a lot of veterans, coming back to a desk job is not challenging enough, nor does it feel like you’re contributing to anything.”
NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) – On Jan. 10, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that the city recently filed suit against the five largest investor-owned fossil fuel companies, namely BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Exxon Mobil and Royal Dutch Shell. The money from the lawsuit will be earmarked to protect the city from the effects of global warming. Tom Stebbins, executive director of the Lawsuit Reform Alliance of New York asks, “What’s next? Do we sue cows for all the methane they produce?”
CHICAGO (Legal Newsline) – A Chicago attorney says several factors may have led to the derailment of the Amtrak train near Tacoma, Washington, on Dec. 18. He is representing some of the plaintiffs who are suing Amtrak over the incident. Attorney Michael Krzak told Legal Newsline that his firm, Clifford Law Offices, has already filed complaints on behalf of two injured parties and he has many more that will soon be filed.
SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) – A California appellate court has reversed a lower court's decision denying class status to janitorial workers at ABM Industries who retained a wage and hour expert, noting “it appears that plaintiffs have identified a number of common questions suitable for classwide resolution.”
