By Michael Patrick O’Brien– A vacation at the beach is not always, well, a vacation at the beach. In March 2023, I attended a continuing legal education (CLE) employment law…
Posts published in March 2023
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– The recurring motif in the Harry Potter books about the cursed Defense of the Dark Arts professor job at Hogwarts always fascinated me. The English teacher…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– I love all the portraits of my two daughters, but one rises above the rest as my favorite. I took the photo a decade ago at…
By Susie Headlee (Guest Contributor)– We live in divided times, when people self-select themselves into siloes and seem uninterested in reaching out to others who may think differently. My friendship…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– The old Huntsville Trappist monastery gave the surrounding community a number of unique and special gifts. One gift was the many interesting persons who visited the…
By Gary Topping– Many years ago my son gave me, as a birthday present or something, a copy of Charles Darwin’s Voyage of the Beagle, his diary of his five-year…