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Blossoming Blossoms
It’s springtime in Central Texas. My favorite time of year. Bluebonnets and 70-degree days. Last year, I was working too much, and missed most of it. This year, I’m taking advantage of a slow patch, and enjoying every bit of … Continue reading
Posted in Antidepressants, Attorney, BigLaw, BigLawBoss, Brintellix, Deplin, Depression, Diet, Exercise & Fitness, Flowers, Health, Mid-Life, Nature, Prediabetes, walking
Tagged Antidepressants, BigLaw, Brintellix, Central Texas, Deplin, Depression, diabetes, Divorce, exercise, Gray Divorce, Health, High-Cost Pharma, Low-carb high-fat, mental-health, nature, outdoors, Prediabetes, Reversing prediabetes, Texas Bluebonnets, Walking
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Sober Vacation
I have returned from what is becoming a yearly sojourn to the cabin on Lake Superior. This year, I took my twenty-six-year-old niece, daughter of my brother Steve, who died in 2013. She’d never been to the cabin. Her father … Continue reading
Posted in 100 Day Sober Challenge, Canada, Ontario, Sober Vacation, Sobriety
Tagged 100-Day Sober Challenge, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Alzheimer's, Birds, Canada, Chipmunks, Lake Superior, Lake Superior Provincial Park, nature, Nature Photography, Nikon D3200, Ontario, Pancake Bay, Photography, Pinguisibi River, Sand River, Sober Vacation, Sobriety
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Lawyers At Sunset
I read an article in the Texas Lawyer yesterday: The Graying Tsunami: As Baby Boom Lawyers Reach 65, More Choose to Work Into the Sunset “In the past 10 years, the state’s over-65 lawyer population has grown from 8 to … Continue reading
Posted in Antidepressants, BigLaw, Canada, Depression, Early Retirement, Lake Superior, Ontario, Photography, Practice of Law, Retirement
Tagged Antidepressants, Attorney, Attorney at Law, BigLaw, Canada, Chipmunks, Depression, Early Retirement, Gitch Gumee, Lake Superior, Lawyers, nature, Nature Photography, Ontario, Overachievers, Photography, Practice of Law, Quitting the Law, Retirement, Retirement from the Law, Sunrise, Sunset, Sunsets, Tom Petty
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Operation Non-Legal Eagle
This bird is lucky. He is not a legal eagle. He is a Bald Eagle. A non-legal eagle. One day, I aspire to emulate this bird; to also not be a legal eagle. I’ve become a bit obsessed about this … Continue reading
Posted in 100 Day Sober Challenge, 4 Percent Rule, Attorney, Bald Eagle, BigLaw, Birding, Birds, Early Retirement, Finance, Finances, Great Bear Rainforest, Lawyer, Nature, Photography, Retirement, Sobriety
Tagged 4 Percent Rule, Attorney, Bald Eagle, BigLaw, Birds, Early Retirement, Finance, Finances, Great Bear Rainforest, Lawyer, nature, Photography
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Yin & Yang
Posted in Great Bear Rainforest, Travel
Tagged animals, Black Bear, British Columbia, Great Bear Rainforest, nature, Nikon D3200, Photography, Spirit Bear, Travel, white spirit bear
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Uncomfortably Un-numb
Here I am: Day 22 of the 100-Day-No-Booze Challenge. That’s three weeks without an after-work cocktail. The good news is, I’m no longer numb. The bad news is, I’m no longer numb. Funny thing about drinking (or whatever your numbing … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Alcoholism, Birds, Law, Lawyer, Nature, Retirement, Sobriety, Wine
Tagged Alcoholism, Birds, Great Bear Rainforest, Health, healthy-living, mental-health, nature, Nikon D3200, Photography, Raven, Sobriety, Travel
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BigLaw Blues
This week, I bring you the Vermilion Flycatcher. I photographed this bird in Tucson last March while I was there on a lawyer boondoggle (also known as continuing legal education). At the time, I thought I’d photographed a Scarlet Tanager, … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Alcoholism, Birds, Law, Lawyer, Nature, Photography, Sobriety, Tucson, walking, Wine
Tagged 100-Day Sober Challenge, Alcoholism, BigLaw, Birds, Digital Photography, Digital single-lens reflex camera, law, Lawyer, nature, Nikon, Nikon D3200, Photography, Scarlet Tanager, Sobriety, Tucson, Vermilion Flycatcher
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Trifecta
Today, I bring you a different trifecta than the trifecta I usually write about—three more back-yard birds: I love the gorgeous blue ring around the dove’s eye. If you click on the photo, you’ll see what I mean. This is … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Alcoholism, Birds, Lawyer, Nature, Photography, Sobriety
Tagged 100-Day Sober Challenge, Alcoholism, Birds, Gold Finch, nature, Nikon D3200, outdoors, Photography, Sobriety, White-Winged Dove
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Sobriety is a Yawner
For today’s back-yard birding photo, I bring you the Blue Jay. Larger than most bird-feeder birds, Blue Jays are noisy and aggressive. They’re also fairly comedic and fun to watch. You’ll notice this Blue Jay had lowered his crest, which … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Alcoholism, Birds, Cooking, Health, Insomnia, Nature, Photography, Sobriety, Wine
Tagged Alcoholism, Antidepressants, Back-yard Birding, Birds, Blue Jays, Grief, Health, healthy-living, Lightroom, nature, Nikon D3200, Photography
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Thinking (and thinking) About Drinking
Yes, I am totally getting the hang of Lightroom. I figure if I bring you one image a day, I’ve got enough to last many lifetimes. So eventually, I’ll have to step it up and share several images at once. … Continue reading
Posted in Alcoholism, Birds, Ditching Cable TV, Finance, Frugality, Nature, Photography, Sobriety
Tagged 100-Day Sober Challenge, Alcoholism, Back-yard Birding, Birding, Birds, cardinal, Digital Photography, Finance, Frugality, Internet, Lightroom, mental-health, nature, Netgear C300, Nikon, Nikon D3200, outdoors, Photography, Retirement, Sobriety, Technology Hardware
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