A singer/performer in my youth, I was a voice major at Indiana University, but became a lawyer when I moved to Arizona after I graduated...[Read More]
That’s me, signing a copy of the book for someone. If I look like a horse’s ass that’s because I felt like one. I’d already signed it and then they made me pretend I was doing it again so they could get a picture of me doing it. We were at this [...]
So I have a few favorite lines from works of literature/movies:
“This was not judgment day, only morning - morning, excellent and fair.”
“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
And then of course:
“Forty is the last age at which a bride can be photographed without the unintended Diane Arbus subtext.”
I love the weird, [...]
We got cupcakes from Sprinkles. They were good - really good - but I miss the decadence and sheer size of Crumbs’ “Artie Lange.” (pictured above)
Before I forget, here’s what I ate at Z’Tejas tonight - 2 pomegranate margaritas, a piece of cornbread with butter and salsa, catfish beignets, tortilla chips with artichoke heart/hearts of palm/spinach/cheese dip, and [...]
So far, that would be none.
Except that I memorized my new, most-complicated-ever, you’ll-never-guess-it-in-a-million-years and-it’s-burned-in-my-brain password. It’s got upper and lowercase, symbols, numbers, and who knows what all else. This baby is an impossible code to crack!
There is something stupidly powerful about having a very complicated password now available in my brain to use for future [...]
All of them meaningless but here we go.
First of all, I think I’ve found my new eyebrow artiste. This is a big deal. My eyebrows are a freak show. Left untended, they are a downright menace. So no matter how poor I get, eyebrow waxings by professionals are not optional. The only thing scarier than [...]
We drive Max around every night. It’s part of our routine. It became part of our routine before gas was $4.15 a gallon. And now we can’t stop!
Conrad’s yenta-ing it up (his term, I think he gets it from Howard Stern) with some lawyer friend of his on the phone. It’s pretty unusual for him [...]
From The Tender Bar, J.R. Moehringer:
“You must do everything that frightens you. Everything. I’m not talking about risking your life, but everything else. Think about fear, decide right now how you’re going to deal with fear, because fear is going to be the great issue of your life, I promise you. Fear will be the [...]
I know someone in the throes of a moral dilemma. It’s actually not a dilemma at all - for this person’s own survival, in order to keep from living a life in which every day they’d rather be dead, they have to do something morally wrong. It is a fact of life that sometimes, we [...]
First of all, I am the worst voicemail-message-leaver in the world. The expectant silence of the voicemail system as I’m leaving my message is too much pressure for me. I left a message for someone last night that totally sounded like I was drunk - and I wasn’t.
“Uh, hi, this is Maile Hernandez, and - [...]
Actually it was a chair.
Let me back up. Max trots happily off to school. After his morning hearing, Conrad and I went to breakfast at The Gilbert House. It is a really terrific breakfast place and I insisted on going because I had a craving for it to beat the band. We can’t keep eggs [...]