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FROM THE LAL This is a follow-up on the blind woman that applied for help with obtaining legal custody of the two young girls from Liberia. We had a staff attorney meeting today and I inquired about the status of the ca…
MY FATHER I have decided to write about my family here on xanga; I think that I have some interesting stories to tell. My wife was the catalyst, finally, to make me do it. Today is my father's birthday; he was born in …
EXCITEMENT When I got home today from the courthouse, I was delighted to see a box on my front porch from Amazon. It was "The Butterflies of West Virginia and Their Caterpillars"! My geeky lepidopterist buddies said tha…
FROM THE LAL Surprise! Nothing terrible happened at my job today! I thought that I should say that, because so often it really is rather grim, and I don't want to be depressing. Today I was able to help several people.…
FROM THE LEGAL AID LINE A woman called today and applied to me for help with a child custody case. She was my first call of the day at 9 am. My applicant was a 58 year old white female living in Dallas County, Texas. Sh…
HAPPY EARTH DAY! OK, I'm a day late, but I'm reporting on our Earth Day activities.......(my wife Margie and I both had the day off and it was lovely outside)............. That's one less bovine to poop a hole in t…
THE SOCIETY My wife doesn't know yet that we are going to the next (my first) meeting of the Dallas County Lepidopterists' Society (DCLS.....it is a group that studies butterflies and moths) this weekend in Wise County …
FROM THE LAL A sixty year old African-American woman called today because she needs legal custody of her grandbabies and wants to apply for help: they are a girl, aged 14, and a nine year old boy. The children's mother…
FROM THE LAL It seems kind of lame to say, "Boy, I sure heard something weird at work on the Legal Aid Line today....." but today a woman called with one of these really insanely complicated deals where she is actually…
THIS BETTER BE GOOD These pork ribs cost over 20 dollars! I'm smoking them over hardwood charcoal and hickory wood at about 200 degrees F. It will probably take about 3 hours. I use a dry rub rather than basting them, t…
ERNESTINE COLLINS HUBBARD That was my grandmother's name; she was born March 3, 1910 in Atlanta, Georgia. She was my father's mother. She moved to Dallas, Texas in 1955 with my grandfather and their children. I called h…
MY BUILDING Here is a look at the building today (I still don't have a good name for it): It is getting close to being an enclosed building. We already sit out there and drink beer and we have had dinner out there a …
FROM THE LEGAL AID LINE (LAL) Today, in a three hour period, I spoke with 17 people (in an eight county area of North Texas) and determined that six of them were eligible for our civil legal services. I spent about thir…
DEGREEES OF CONSANGUINITY or HIS DAD'S HIS UNCLE (continued) My wife made me realize I should have probably added one detail to that story from yesterday about the unfortunate fellow with the access/visitation probl…
FROM THE LEGAL AID LINE Today I interviewed an applicant for legal services who was applying for help with a custody suit. He was a mid 20's white male; he is being denied access to his two year old boy. The child resid…
THE YARD AND GARDEN Things are starting to take off in the yard and garden. Here is a photo of another lovely little early flowering Texas native that has done really well here in Dallas, Texas; this one is the Mexican …