Archive for August, 2006

be like Yao Ming: don’t eat shark fin soup

August 30th, 2006

My article about sharks came out in this month’s Asian Geographic. It’s about the crisis of extinction sharks are facing, and what some people - like Yao Ming - are doing about it.
You can’t see the whole article online - got to subscribe to the magazine for that - but I can give you […]


the novel is not plagiarized

August 29th, 2006

I finally finished my novel. I finally finished my novel!
So yesterday I went to a local print shop to print the novel out so I can send it to the wonderful agent who asked to see it.
The print shop employee was overwhelmed by the size of the novel - fair enough; it’s 320 pages […]


ABA Journal article

August 6th, 2006

Here’s an article I wrote for the ABA Journal that just came out. The article’s about a new law in Maine that allows judges to put pets under protective orders in domestic violence cases. This is a good law Maine’s passed - it makes it a lot easier for DV victims to leave […]


avocados

August 6th, 2006

My friend D. and her son J. and I are going for a walk near their house the other day, and we pass an avocado tree.
The avocados are all up pretty high in the tree, and we can’t find a stick long enough to knock any of them down. So D. and I are […]