Anita's Love

There’s a funny feeling that comes over you when someone looks you in the eye and reveals a truth about yourself that you had been avoiding for some time.  It’s not anger.  It’s not sadness.  It can’t be denial.  It’s more like a hard, cold, but almost welcome acceptance of a very difficult truth.  And [...]

            All I can seem to write lately is 2-page epiphanies.  Probably because that’s all I’m having lately.  Two-page epiphanies.

             “No doubt about it.  God loves you.”

             Pointing at the cursor.  “There it is.  It is waiting for you.”

             “To do what?”

             “To write something.”

             I think I like writing epiphanies because I like learning, [...]

“I’m very disappointed in you.”

“I trusted you with this.  I don’t trust people very easily.”

“I don’t know if I’ll ever give you another project again.”

“I work around the clock, too.  And I still get all of the work done.”

            I later finished the draft brief and offered up more assistance over the weekend [...]

I found a flash drive in Anita’s desk a couple of days ago full of documents, many similar to this. This was written while we lived in Chicago, before she had a job in Atlanta and more than two years before she started her own (service oriented) business.

Her “thoughtfullness” point hits her spot on. Never [...]

After Anita was accepted to the University of Michigan Law School in fall of 1995, she was invited to submit an application for the prestigous Darrow Scholarship. Here is how the school describes it:

Of all the merit scholarships awarded by the University of Michigan Law School, the Darrow is the apogee. The award of a [...]

I finally found this essay! One of the best things Anta ever wrote, I thought. Dated October 5, 1995, this was an essay answering the question “Why do you want to go to law school?” I remember she sent it to the University of Michigan – and helped win her a full scholarship.

Racism. It is [...]