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August holds two big things for me--it officially marks the ten-year mile marker for my second career as a prosecutor, and it's also my month in the spotlight as Marquette Law School's "alumni blogger of the month"! Yet another of those "whodathunkit" moments I couldn't have imagined fifteen years ago if you paid me.One of my essays is about taking that leap of faith ten years ago and stepping in...

My knee-jerk response to this question brought me back to a football game many years ago. My team kicked a meaningless field goal on the last play of the game to win by 10 points. The coach was loudly criticized for running up the score, rather than taking a knee and ending the game. For me the kick was not meaningless, as it allowed me to recoup sizeable gambling losses. As a result, I didn't...

Just got back from Washington D.C. yesterday where I got to see my daughter, Sarah Muehlbauer, standing next to her dress and video which are on display in the S. Dillon Ripley Gallery of the SMITHSONIAN!!!!! Pardon the exclamation points, I'm so incredibly thrilled for her! I wrote a while ago about her winning the Green Light Awards grand prize (sponsored by Volkswagen) in "The $20,000 dress."...

I was thrilled not long ago to learn that my collection of essays,