Mitchell's Ramblings

For the past decade, whenever the G-8 hold a meeting, no matter what city they choose, every conceivable protestor of every conceivable poli...

Almost forty years ago, a seventeen-year-old kid in Columbus, Ohio decided that the best way he could advance his economic interest was to r...

When my paternal grandmother died in 1969, my father and mother went down to Osceola, Arkansas to fix up my grandmother’s house in preparati...

I’m not *at* *all* fond of Christmas- Partially because it coincided so closely with my mother’s death in 1975. I’m sure I’m not the only pe...

One of my dearest friends is an extraordinarily sweet-natured woman named Barbara who has three children who are currently either in college...

Merlin Olson was always one of my favorite football players. He played *fifteen* *years* in the NFL for the Los Angeles Rams and made All-Pr...

During my five-year stint as a public defender in Bethel, Alaska, one of my greatest joys was my occasional visits from my coworker’s extrem...