f/k/a archives . . . real opinions & real haiku

1. Blogging feels addictive, and I can’t “just say no.”

2. Blawggers are a real community, and so far I’ve only seen the positive side of being a member (special thanks to Carolyn, Walter, Ernie, Robert, Genie, Tom, Stuart, Ken, et al., for your warm welcome, continuing interest, and/or thoughtful tolerance)

3. Blogging feels like a job, but it’s the first job I’ve ever had that I always enjoy getting (and staying) up to do — even when I’m complaining about all the work and worried about voicing opinions on important subjects in such a public way

4. The best unexpected benefit of writing Op/Ed pieces for my own weblog: I get to write my own headlines. After years bemoaning editors who caption my pieces with a little too much attitude, with exaggeration, or with no apparent understanding of the content or the point, I’m loving the role of BlOpEditor — responsible for my own captions, and glad of it. [One particularly aggravating example from my past: Five years ago, my local newspaper, on the front page of the Sunday opinion section, ran the following headline with my piece asking for more lawyer competence and diligence, and supporting mandatory CLE (which the local bar still opposed): Sad to Say, Bad Lawyers Aren’t the Exception.   Although I did say there are too many of them, I did not say that bad lawyers were the rule, and I did make appropriate disclaimers about all the honest, able, hardworking ones I’d seen.  Thanks to that headline, a number of colleagues in town still cross the street when they see me coming.  I don’t mind being provocative, but I really hate being ostracized.]

5. I admire all the bloggers who also have busy jobs and budding families, and I hope they figure out a way to play all those roles well.

Okay, that’s enough personal, squishy stuff.   If I don’t get back to provocation, I might put you all to sleep.