It was a bright summer day in the tiny Breton town of Cuguen where my childhood family friends own a small country house, handed down through the family. The air was crisp and light, with an almost sensual quality, infused with the scent of flowers and the sweetness of thick grass and forest.
Read moreVisiting a Breton family brings back a memory of family tradition. Fresh bread from the boulangerie starts the day and a simple but delicious dinner winds it up, all accompanied by conversation and a glass of wine, around the kitchen table.
Read moreIn Moëlen-sur-Mer, I pushed open a wooden door opening onto a narrow walkway that lead to a stone house from the 16th or 17th century. High on a stone wall that abutted a small, very green backyard, lay an enormous cat, its dark gray and white colors very much like a Cheshire cat. It was staring straight at me. At my feet arrived a small dog whose name I later learned was Merlin.
Read moreThe imagery of the Tour de France takes the mind entirely away from court hearings and legal battles and transports you from your couch onto a slow, day-by-day voyage through a country that has nurtured and kept a balance between small farmers and a lush earth.
Read moreThe student government candidate created a video depicting himself as James Bond rescuing a fellow classmate from two Muslim students who were forcing the classmate into a video game competition. Was that “inappropriate.”
Read moreAs powerful as the images of border families were, immigration is a trap for the Democrats. The leadership that has lost so many elections doesn’t see it.
Read moreThere is so little reason being displayed in the policy of the Trump administration. More fundamental, and more disturbing, is that the president’s large group of followers have no interest in it.
Read moreWhile there is little doubt that President Trump’s sometimes lawyer Michael Cohen faces indictment, the mystery remains as to what he may be indicted for.
Read moreWe at Courthouse News were faced with a dilemma during our coverage of a Michael Cohen hearing in New York.
Read moreThe law is in good measure a game of strategy. Traditionally, the players shared much in common. The judges and lawyers on all sides were versed to a greater or lesser extent in the dark art of the law and the scribes who translated to the larger audience were versed to a greater or lesser extent in the related arts of literature and writing.
Read moreAs a journalist, I am always intrigued by how people take in the news and how the publisher survives.
Read moreSpy trials seemed to be the special province of the federal court in Los Angeles during past decades. But the federal court in Washington D.C. is now reminiscent of the Los Angeles court in its heyday, with central billing given by the press to related prosecutions coming out of the Russia probe.
Read moreLike a man in a dark room, the Democratic Party is bumping around and feeling its way forward. But to get through, it must first solve the riddle of the old socialist.
Read moreUnlike those who believe our democracy is under existential threat, I don’t think so. The guardians of the Bill of Rights are ensconced in their federal courtrooms and not going anywhere. But the political field is fertile, you could say fecund, for a new set of political representatives.
Read moreAt the Courthouse News holiday party, in an outdoor patio with a chimney and a lit fireplace, small white lights strung overhead, I asked our accountant, an accomplished, professional woman, what she thought of the sex discrimination furor.
Read moreGoing out massive, glass turn-style doors next to the baggage area of the Portland airport, cold, rainy air hit me. And I realized that Southern California shirtsleeves were not going to cut it.
Read more“Send after him a gust of bloody breath, shrivel him with vapor, the fire from your guts, follow him, wither him with fresh pursuit.”
Read moreTwenty years ago, my niece gave me a kitten. The cat had been my roommate since then.
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