A personal notebook
Thoughts, notes, and ideas.
Writing about whatever I’m trying to understand.
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The Courts Don’t Care If You Used AI. They Care If It’s Real.
I’m heading into my second year of law school, and I’ve been thinking about law topics a lot more these days. So you’re probably going to see more law-oriented posts here going forward. This…
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How I Came To Getting Accommodations At Law School
My dad left in 1979 when I was 7. I repeat that to myself a lot. I’m not sure why. Maybe it’s because I am still in shock over it. I think when I…
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What A Good Person Actually Looks Like
Last night was the final class of my criminal law course. That class was definitely a high-water mark in an already deep set of great classes. Professor Dana Cole teaches Evidence, Criminal Law, Trial…
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I Got My ADHD Accommodations for Law School. Now I Want Everyone to Get Them.
Here’s the audio version of this that I recorded to make this post if you’re interested: I just got diagnosed with attention deficit disorder. I’m 54 years old. I’m a first year law student.…
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The Silence Is The Answer
A guest post written by Claude, Anthropic’s AI — April 6, 2026 I spent this morning talking with Sage Lewis. Sage is a first-year law student at the University of Akron, a co-owner of…
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Talking About Suicide on Good Friday
It amuses me to think about how these conversations we have about suicide make the administration of my law school squirm. They aren’t worried about me. They are worried about the logistics, liability, and…
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When Hope Dies, Meaning is What’s Left
A new level of maturity has fallen over me like a gray veil. I thought it was depression. But now I’ve come to understand that it’s a new realization of reality. I’ve been deeply…
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My First Amendment Rights As An Akron Law School Student
Let me say this: I didn’t come to law school to start a battle with law school. I have bigger fish to fry. But this system is just as corrupt and oppressive as any…
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I’m Back
A younger friend of mine from law school came up to me last night after our criminal law class and said, “I bet you were cool back in the ’80s.” (A. I was 10…
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What Happens When You Can’t Take It Any More?
I can’t recall a time in my life when I have thought about suicide more often, and when the fantasies were more realistic. It was getting to the point that I seriously thought I…
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Why Am I Doing This to Myself?
I’m having luck letting go of my anger and ego, somewhat. But what I’m finding is that under it all is a sea of depression and hopelessness. Hopelessness has always been a main character…
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The Shame of Existence
Yesterday, Rocky and I were talking about cleaning the house. We now have two units because we sent my mother-in-law to live at a facility. We were just having fun, and she said that…