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Steve | July 8, 2011
Several years ago, over the Christmas holidays, I was talking with my brother, Paul (Gordon Tech High School class of 1983), about something that happened during frosh year. While sitting one day in an Internet cafe, I had heard a song from that year and had been startled. I remember, saying to myself, “Holy shit, [...]
Steve | February 2, 2011
Note: This story first appeared at Lawyer-boxer’s Blog on July 25, 2007.
Several years ago, I trained at Chicago’s storied Windy City Boxing Gym. (It has since closed due to some building code violations in the old warehouse where the gym owners had rented space.) It was in a fairly rough part of the city and [...]
Steve | February 2, 2011
It’s Friday night in the big city.
It’s time to unwind, time to chill.
A lawyer, a judge, and an oil driller
Walk into a bar. Really, they do.
The light in the bar is dim,
Not too bright, not too low.
There are no black robes here,
Just brown beer bottles.
No banging of the gavel,
Just the clinking of glasses.
No passionate legal [...]
Steve | January 22, 2009
I was inspired to write this after reading “Credo of a Best Friend,” in Ken Druck, The Secrets Men Keep (New York: Ballantine Books, 1985), pp. 135-136. This is a statement of principles by which I try to live and to honor my close male friends.
I will become the best man I can be [...]
