Month: June 2023

The 12 Rules, that’s who. Sometimes all you need is what one favorite poet called a New Mind. These now classic if […]

Andrea di Bonaiuto da Firenze, The Church Militant and Church Triumphant, fresco, Santa Maria Novella, Florence (1365)

Starting around 1965, and until 1971 or so, I painted Indian Hill mailboxes, washed cars and taught tennis. For two years I […]

The Fighting Temeraire, tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1839, by Joseph Mallord William Turner. The National Gallery, Trafalgar […]

A man with his belly full of the classics is an enemy of the human race. “” Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer […]

On this day in 1631, in Dorchester, Massachusetts, British lawyer John Winthrop became first Governor of Massachusetts. Winthrop was born near the […]

Am happy that people like J.K. Rowling are attacking the term “cisgender.” Frankly, “cisgender” was coined and popularized by folks who want […]

My tribe this solstice. The Anglo-Irish have spread drunkenness, bullshit, sloth, verbal audacity, bellicosity and evil genius everywhere for over 1000 years. […]

Scores of my family””some officers but most not””fought on both sides of the American civil war. Based on what I’ve learned, the […]

“Law Biz: What About Clients? Dan Hull is no pussy. If lawyers laid eggs and hatched their young, Randazza would have been […]

I still miss my friend and old drinking pal Elvoy Raines, writer, lawyer-lobbyist, outlaw. We were very much alike. He was on […]

Sainte Genevieve (422-512) saved Parisians from the Huns, the legend goes, in 451. People had started to flee Paris in anticipation of […]

Clients want to be part of that. Watching and enjoying the “well-oiled” team is an image which sticks in the client mind, […]

War is the last of all things to go according to schedule. — Thucydides (460 BC – 395 BC) in The History […]

79 Years Ago. 16th Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, Easy Red Sector, Omaha Beach, June 6, 1944. © Robert Capa.

Without invention nothing is well spaced, unless the mind change, unless the stars are new measured, according to their relative positions, the […]

Here’s a WWII story I first heard in 1992 in Paris from a struggling young Irish painter named Richard hustling his drinks […]

RFK or “Bobby.” Far and away he was the most interesting and storied Kennedy. A phenom and a rock star at the […]

Laid out like a modern grid-form metropolis, Père Lachaise has the feel of a town–truly, a city of the dead–with tidy paved […]

They have more class. –With apologies to the F. Scott-Ernest exchange. Like their natural enemy, the English, Parisians are wonderful–but neither nation’s […]

Our world-famous 12 Rules of Client Service. Revel in their wisdom. Ignore them at your peril. Make your family memorize them. Teach […]