This is both a law enforcement AND a humanitarian crisis, yet the rhetoric is often divisive. This is also not a new issue. Maybe stepping away from the current lens and taking a look at 150-year-old version of the problem, with a different cast of characters, could change the way we think and talk about and just maybe try to solve this problem?

I can’t fix what’s on the news. But I can offer my skills and talents, one person at a time, to clients who need a way forward. By focusing on the person right next to me, I shake off that silent killer, disempowerment.

But as I look back on my career, I always knew when I was choosing to move toward purpose and when I was choosing to move away from it. It was like a drumbeat in the distance.

Talk less, read more. Slow simmer a soup. Roast pumpkins as the cold front moves in on Friday.

Here are some books that I’m currently not reading but wish I were:

When I sit across the table in our office from a child — strong, courageous, vulnerable, hopeful, and terrified, all at once — it’s not mine to care about the policy options. Mine is to love and care for this child of God. The one thing I can do is to advocate for them to receive protection under the program that Congress chose to set up for children like them.

I’m tired, but deeply appreciative of the seasons, as marked by both the academic calendar and the Gregorian calendar. Today is the first day of October - so named because it was the eighth month of the Roman calendar

In 2019, 4.9 children per 1,000 in Kentucky died before the age of six. According to adjusted census figures for 1880, infant mortality in Kentucky in those days was between 150 and 180 deaths per 1,000.

I saw the movie when it came out, a few months before I started law school. I watched some of it again, thirty years and lots of litigation later, and actually, I thought Joe Pesci’s lawyering in the courtroom scenes was pretty good.