A Year of Blogging
A year ago yesterday, I wrote a timid little post about the Scooter Libby trial, to see what a blog might look like. The next day, I wrote another post. Then I wrote one I really liked. And that was it for me.
It really did change my life. Since last February, I've:
- Learned volumes more than anybody has learned from me;
- Been honored with inclusions in the ABA Journal Blawg 100, Blawg Review's "Simply the Best" list, and some dizzyingly flattering posts by blogging colleagues;
- Been quoted in terrific stories in the National Law Journal and the ABA Journal;
- Become a regular guest on Milwaukee Public Radio's local current affairs show Lake Effect, and a regular blogger in the Wisconsin Law Journal;
- Turned 50;
- Lost an awful lot of sleep; and
- Run up debts of gratitude I'll likely never be able to repay, to new friends I've never met. To Eric Turkewitz (the first person to cite me), Scott Greenfield, Mark Bennett, Gideon, David Giacalone, Blawg Review's anonymous Ed. (I think I'm the only person who doesn't know who he is), Susan Cartier Liebel, Victoria Pynchon, Michael Connelly of the late and very lamented Corrections Sentencing, Barry Barnett, Pat Lamb (okay, him I know), Dan Hull and Holden Oliver, Walter Olson, Carolyn Elefant, Kevin O'Keefe, Emma Barrett, Anne Skove, Jamie Spencer, Karl Keys, Dave Hoffman and Dan Solove, Stephen Gustitis, the ASTC's Dennis Elias, and the many others who showed me generosity and kindness, please know that I'm really grateful.
(Calendar by Eliazar Parra Cardenas at http://www.flickr.com/photos/eliazar/407591133/; license details there.)
