by Katie | Apr 2, 2019 | Uncategorized
By Paul Hogan On February 14 every year we celebrate a day dedicated to love – Valentine’s Day. Of course, we all recognize the concept that if you want to be loved, first you must give love. You know, the pay it forward concept. My older sister Margie passed...
by Katie | Mar 28, 2019 | Uncategorized
By Paul Hogan I walked into the extended stay motel, it’s early December, it’s cold and it’s dark. There are a lot of service/industrial type trucks of all sizes in the parking lot with mainly men in work clothes coming in and out at the end of a workday. I enter a...
by Katie | Mar 19, 2019 | Uncategorized
By Paul Hogan At the end of a book I’m reading the author tells the story of how 20 years before, as a young man he got into a bar fight. His opponent broke the glass pitcher against his face cutting him deeply and causing the blood to flow. He needed immediate...
by Katie | Mar 13, 2019 | Uncategorized
By Paul Hogan “You know why everyone thinks that all lawyers are backstabbing, bloodsucking scumbags? ‘Cause they are!” – Erin Brockovich ‘Cause, I am one, a lawyer that is, although I prefer to think not a backstabbing, bloodsucking scumbag, I...
by ewcAdmin | Mar 5, 2019 | Uncategorized
Babies, toddlers, preschool kids, elementary, middle, high school and probably most college students are all in the beginning of life. They will probably never read a word I’ve written or care. They are busy living their lives. The good news is that’s the way it...
by Katie | Feb 26, 2019 | Uncategorized
I’m sitting in the drive-in, drinking beer with my college friends, feeling all grown-up because I just turned 21 the day before and had been honorably discharged from the Navy a few months before. While watching the movie I occasionally looked up at the big full...
by Katie | Feb 19, 2019 | Uncategorized
By Paul Hogan OMG! Almost two months of 2019 is already gone, gone, gone. My mind sharply focuses that I had better start working on my New Year’s resolutions. My mind un-focus’s and asks, what should I write about? The first thought is always about me, and of course,...
by Katie | Feb 12, 2019 | Uncategorized
By Paul Hogan Meet your family – Did you know? Every time you talk to someone at my office; every time a service is provided; a phone call is made to you; a letter to an insurance company goes out; any one of the checklist items we use to handle your claim (as quick...
by Katie | Feb 5, 2019 | Uncategorized
By Paul Hogan When I have someone injured in a motor vehicle accident, who has asked for my help, one of the first things I do is give them a blue bag. I tell them that I had these blue bags made especially for my clients. It is insulated so that they can put a...
by Katie | Jan 29, 2019 | Uncategorized
By Paul Hogan In this post, I would like to honor my Irish heritage and the Hogan name. As I have written before my great-grandparents, James and Johanna Hogan, immigrated from Ireland. I have been raised with the Hogan name in various forms. There was the great...