Sixty-Five-Year-Old Man Takes Bar Exam Yesterday I received my first written communication from the North Carolina Board of Law Examiners. The investigator assigned to my file stated that I had a nondisclosure issue. I had omitted to report on my application that I once attended classes at Florida Institute of Technology. It’s true; I had […]
Sixty-Five-Year-Old Man Takes Bar Exam In my second post of this series I mentioned that one part of the application process is completing a character and fitness questionnaire. Here are some of the questions the applicant must answer: Please provide a driving record from the DMV of each state in which you have ever been […]
Sixty-Five-Year Old Man Takes Bar Exam
Sixty-Five-Year-Old Man Takes Bar Exam I thought that for a few weeks. Bar review courses are expensive, between $1500 and almost $3,000; occasionally a promotion can make the price of some of them closer to $1,000. I thought I could review hornbooks or study aids and learn the law I need to pass the exam. […]
Sixty-Five-Year-Old Man Takes Bar Exam One of the defining hallmarks of a profession is that its members subscribe to norms of behavior, often set out as a code. For physicians in the U.S., the major such code is the American Medical Association’s Code of Ethics. Librarians have their own ethic codes, promulgated by the American […]
Sixty-Five-Year-Old Man Takes Bar Exam I spent a good deal of my time outside of work in early October reviewing North Carolina’s rules for becoming a lawyer, or “being admitted to the bar.” After all, I am not new to this rodeo. I attended law school immediately after graduating from college, and I had taken […]
Launching Toward A New Challenge My age is not a secret that I closely guard; in fact, I don’t guard it at all. Since I don’t shout my birthday on social media, because I don’t want to give identity thieves more for their arsenals than they already get from the hacks that have exposed personal […]
All too quickly,You will find,Things are passing by. Try to remember:Your beginning,Long forgotten.As if it never happened.Try to conceive:Your end.Too far off, you say.And yet, it might as well have happened yesterday. For what you are now, will not be you later.And either will you be what you hope.For no matter what you strive for, […]
It is noon. The men wear their gray business suits.Made of Orlon and Dacron,And stored in plastic bags.The women wear their white dresses,Made of Rayon and Nylon,And stored in plastic bags. In the evening, they eat Their dinners off of paperPlates; then watch their ColorT.V.’s. And in the middle of the night. I see the truth. […]
I see her.But she doesn’t see me.At one time she would have,but that was before. I see her not as a dream,But as what she is:Blind.In the heart.