Ocean

She still loves him even though he is a 1L and forgot to get her a birthday present (because of Law School demands, so he says!) 

Lots of humor in the bunch. Lots. 

I worked without flash. She doesn't need flash anyway. She organized this evening, she shines! 

They sat in the front row and they kept me on my toes. Every day. 

Quiet? No. Not at all. And her family should be so proud. Oh, they are? well, deservedly so. 

They're friends. Really. Even though he sat on the left of the classroom and she sat on the right. 

Texas dudes - each so talanted it hurts; and the one in pink? She can deliver a line with a straight face and leave you convulsed with laugh...

There was a time when I looked forward to humorous British flicks. They were so…puzzling. Remember the one about the pig that made its way i...

To celebrate and promote the return of the show, BBC sponsored a contest for people to write in untrue facts about Britain. Here are some fa...

Thank you so very much to those * who spoke up [some quite passionately!:)] in defense of the freedom to engage in honest, inquisitive, ear...

Free associate! Poland... Obsessively blogged about lately on Ocean . Freezing... Wisconsin! Freezing in Europe... Poland? ...

My first year law students are enjoying themselves in these last days of classes. Someone posted a Civ Pro Quiz ( Which Federal Rule of Civ...

If you click onto interia.pl (and if you speak Polish so that you can actually understand what comes up) you’ll find a link to an Internet P...

It’s odd to be hearing these words repeatedly on one day, in two different contexts. I woke up to news of the closing of JFW – the webl...

Think you can’t find pierniczki w czekoladzie in Madison for the holidays? Think you have to travel to Poland to stock up? Oh, then you don...

Bags and bags of "pierniczki w czekoladzie."

The gingerbread is soft, yummy, the chocolate is dark... the perfect winter companion to coffee, tea, or hot chocolate. 

The Italians have found a way. In the IHT today : Italians routinely ignore the conservative Pope John Paul II in matters of private mor...

A reader sent a link to a story in the Boston Globe that compared Poland today with where Ireland was some ten, twenty years ago: only Polan...

Last week I complained bitterly about traveling to Poland where early snowstorms have hit Warsaw with a fury, given that I still had roses b...