Judd Corizan, founder of The Rising Blogger, the site I recently acquired, has launched a new site, Sunday Stealing. Each Sunday, they rip off a meme from another blogger — giving full credit and a link back to that author’s site, of course — and invite everyone to play along.

This week they lifted the “Finish This Sentence” meme from PT-Law Mom, who stole it from A Woman in Law School. Given the credentials of the criminals involved in this caper, I am playing along as a show of solidarity to my future fellow female barristers and, of course, Judd.

I hope you will become an accomplice and link back to all of the co-conspirators!

1. My uncle (by marriage) once told my father and other uncle by marriage that he believed all African-Americans (that’s not the word he used) should be “shipped back to Africa — heads in one boat and bodies in another.”  I will never, ever forget that moment.  I was about ten years old and we were spending a couple of weeks in South Dakota visiting relatives and friends. My father did not say anything in response as we were guests in my aunt and uncle’s home.  I was so stunned and horrified by his words that I never, ever forgot them.  I consider it one of the defining moments in my life that ultimately led me to choose a career as a civil rights attorney.  Until this moment, I have never written or spoken about that incident.

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Family Cooking and Recipes

Anna presents 7 Simple Steps to a Fabulously Frugal Tomato Cream Sauce posted at On a Quest To Be Debt Free.

Family Pets

Matt M presents Keep a First-Aid Kit posted at The Pet Haven.

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I saw it coming, but made up my mind I would hold out until BigBob said something. And then, a few weeks ago, he asked the question: “Is there really any point in continuing to subscribe to the newspaper?” We were standing in the kitchen looking at several editions of the Lodi News-Sentinel that we had tossed on the counter in recent days, still folded and bound by those trademark red rubber bands.

I could not remember the last time I had actually picked up an edition of our local newspaper and read it. For years now, I’ve been reading it online. In fact, it is my custom to read the Stockton Record and Sacramento Bee online. I scan the headlines, read the articles that interest me, close the browser window, and move on to the morning’s next task. Often, because I am a Type “A” multi-tasker, I skim a few stories while listening to voice mail messages and returning phone calls.

But until a few days later, when I screwed up my courage to apologize profusely and inform our hard-working carrier that we were canceling our subscription, there had never been a time in my life when, as a resident of Lodi, the sole newspaper published in our little village didn’t land on my doorstep six days each week. And for many years, we faithfully subscribed to the Sunday edition of the Stockton Record.

Our carrier was not surprised. In fact, she told me she had processed several cancellations by long-time subscribers in recent days. “A sign of the times,” she sighed.

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I heard about Rick Rolling from . . . who else? My kids! Mattie-Boo Rick Roll’d me one night a few months ago and then rolled on the floor himself in a combined fit of hysterical giggling mixed with revulsion when he realized that not only did I remember “Never Gonna Give You Up” by Rick Astley, I also remembered all the words and could still bust a move!

Tonight he told me one of his friends Barack Roll’d him so I checked out You Tube and sure enough:

I don’t usually blog about politics, but I will say this much: Yes, I am supporting Obama Biden. My mind was made up after the Vice Presidential picks were announced.