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I’m a lot like Martin Scorsese, I think.

This month will mark the beginning of my 39th year.

Next Tuesday some of us will go out there and vote whether we like it or not.

At the recent county bar association meeting, I was introduced to an apparently common practice that I believe soon will be lost to this profession.

It’s October!

October means fests with dark beer and pretzels, football, a dipping thermometer and the new term of the U.S. Supreme Court.

“I’m singing this song, it’s time it was sung. I’ve been putting it off for awhile. But it’s harder by now, ‘cause the truth is so clear. That I cry when I’m seeing you smile.”

Next week I reach the one-year mark in my job as a Missouri public defender.

This Friday more than 600 happy new Missouri attorneys can file into Jefferson City to take their oath before the Supreme Court and file over to the Capitol building for comments, punch and some bags full of stuff suitable to any convention.

Last week was short, but it felt long.

Woohoo!

I simultaneously love and hate clichés. As a writer, I find them to be truisms that seem so lazy to use in most situations. Replacing your own talented prose with some universal understanding of a situation via shared shorthand. The ...