Madelyn is 10 Months Old Today!!!

"Shhhhhh. I'm hiding."

2006 Robert R. Merhige, Jr. National Environmental Law Negotiation Competition

• I'm back from the Richmond negotiation competition. My team did not place but Regent's other team reached the final round and brought home the fourth place trophy!
• If you have ever watched Dead Poets Society, there is a great scene where the young male university characters are viewing a trophy case with the tarnished spoils of competitions forgotten decades ago along with grand, faded, black & white photos of the school's championship sports teams. And as the camera slowly focuses in on the faces of those young athletes of a bygone era, the professor tells his students to listen carefully -- because the pictures -- the athletes-- are wispering something: "Carpe Diem" "Carpe Diem" "Sieze the Day".
• That's the surreal feeling I get when I walk the historic grounds of the Richmond University campus. The university is 175 years old this year and is a showcase of natural and architectural beauty. As a setting in the context of American history one wonders what it must have been like to be on this campus during Andrew Jackson's presidency? The Civil War, etc? What famous or notable men & women in American history walked the very grounds that I walk today?
• Carpe Diem.

T.C. Williams School of Law, University of Richmond

1900

Antique Brick Walkways

Library Tower

Trees

Gothic Window

Lake

Time out.

Rub a dub dub.

Sweet like honey.

Maddie learned to crawl a couple weeks ago. When she's not tearing the house apart, she's trying to catch me!

Here's to hopin' that the warm Spring weather is here to stay!

Look how tall Madelyn is!