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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...

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...

One of the obvious things is that most of the religions practiced today were first established hundreds and thousands of years ago. Their principles and tenets were often based on a very strong leader who combined the ethics and morals of that time with the then current scientific knowledge to the extent it applied. That many of the religions are still with us today testifies to the...

My "caboose baby" is graduating from high school tonight. I'm nowhere near ready. I still need to iron his graduation gown, prepare dinner, take a shower, do my hair. But even if all that were done by magic wand...I still wouldn't be ready. I don't think I ever will be. Twenty seven years of daily hands-on mothering is drawing to a close, with the last stop on the train being dropping my...

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