Value Added Terminal

  I may be terrible with remembering names and birthdays but if you looked inside my brain you would find airport blueprints.  Well, maps of airports and Chanel boutiques around the world.  I think I’d make a pretty good human iPhone travel app. Give me the airport’s IATA  three letter code and I will recite the ranking of each airport based on check-in  efficiency, baggage claim down time, location/ hours …

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Adoption Anniversary

    I’m interrupting our Prague visit with a very special adoption anniversary blog entry. Exactly four years ago to the hour, I made a lifestyle altering decision to adopt two 3-weeks-old kittens from Bark Avenue LA.  It used to be an animal shelter in downtown LA but apparently they now provide other services besides adoption.   Shifu…     …

Politely Lost In Prague

This is how it always starts, a few frazzled minutes through security followed by some uneasy down time before the cattle call to board the plane.  Flying is always a yo-yo event with so many things that shouldn’t but could go wrong that my happiest moment isn’t until my feet are finally moving under a sign like this in whatever …

Young And Restless In LA

  A long, long time ago in between reading for con law and criminal law I’d unwind with certain friends at clubs all around LA.  The more underground the better.  There’d be hell to pay for it the next day in an early class but the way we saw it, we were “researching” for future clients and cases in those dives.  During my …

9/11

  So another 9/11 passes, and today on its 8th anniversary I can still clearly recall that Tuesday morning when a colleague called me from Toronto. I was already in my LA office, really early as usual, responding to client emails.  Back in those days I liked coming into the office while it was still dark outside. It meant I had a fighting chance …