CO&S Retreat

All of the attorneys and staff from my office headed to Highlands, NC over the weekend for a relaxing and productive retreat. We shared some good food and even had a cookie decorating seminar! We all hope this retreat will be an annual event from now on!

Will, Ruth, Amy, Toni, Jim, Marcia & Lori at the firm retreat.



View from the deck.



Marcia's wonderful cookies!



Gingerbread cookies.



Decorating the cookies.



Dinner: Salad, ribeye steak, salmon with teriyaki marinade, roasted potatoes, broccoli & a biscuit!



The finished gingerbread cookies!



Breakfast casserole, fruit & Kringle.

CO&S Holiday Shindig!

Our Holiday Office Party Feast. I made deviled eggs, lemon squares & butterscotch gingerbread cookies. I also helped put everything together!



Gifts under the tree. Since I never had a tree growing up I relish the office party tree!



Here's to a wonderful holiday season!

Front Page News

I met up with a couple of colleagues at the Moreland Avenue location of Front Page News. We discussed our child advocacy and adoption law experiences and dined on some decent bar food. My turkey wrap was pretty good, with tasty, no mayo pasta salad and the spinach dip had a lot of real spinach in it. The atmosphere is what this place is all about, though, with a huge outdoor patio and bar with fountain.

Veggie Burger and Fries

Spinach Artichoke Dip

Turkey Wrap with Pasta Salad

Christopher would be disappointed...

Columbus, Ohio - I am here taking a one week course in adoption law at Capital University. So far the course work is quite interesting and I have encountered some nice folks from law schools all over the country.
The city (or shall I say town) of Columbus, on the other hand, has not impressed me so far! When I arrived on Sunday the downtown area was deserted and my roommate Jill and I had to walk several blocks just to find an open restaurant! We did end up finding a place called Ted's Montana Grill that had a respectable bison burger but geez - where is everybody?! The other neat place we visited is called North Market - a Reading Terminal market-like place with all kinds of food stalls. We had some delicious sushi there and also hit up Ben & Jerry's last night (sadly I had to get sorbet because of my lactose problem). Hopefully tonight I will get to German Village - supposedly a neat area so look for news of that soon!