Nov 17, 2016 | Florida Law, general law, Uncategorized
From time to time, I will appear to a scheduled hearing expecting to see the judge assigned to that section of court, and, instead, a retired judge appears. Florida’s constitution permits the assignment of retired judges. However, it specifies that these assignments...
Oct 6, 2016 | Uncategorized
In 1965, actor George Takei was cast in the role of Lt. Sulu in the Star Trek television series. He has been associated with this role ever since. In addition to his acting career, he is known as a proponent of LGBT rights and is active in state and local politics....
Sep 29, 2016 | Uncategorized
Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger sold a photo sharing app, Instagram, to Facebook two years after its founding for one billion dollars. It is clear that luck had something to do with it. The need for an app that allowed users to enhance their photos with filters...
Sep 22, 2016 | Uncategorized
Cliff Young was the unexpected winner of the inaugural Sydney to Melbourne Ultra Marathon in 1983. The run took him five days, fifteen hours and four minutes–almost two days faster than the previous record. At the time Cliff was a sixty-one year old potato...
Sep 8, 2016 | Uncategorized
Mother Teresa of Calcutta made this observation: “In developed countries there is a poverty of intimacy of spirit, of loneliness, of lack of love. There is no greater sickness today than that one. Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the worst, the...
Sep 1, 2016 | Uncategorized
When faced with the difficulties and realities of life, a person’s emotions can become engaged. The problem is that our emotions don’t serve us well in stressful situations. As a family law attorney I have sought out strategies to help other people solve...
