Let the birds haggle the leavesLet the run bring you to your kneesLet the Sun dry your eyesLet the dew mix your criesLet the drop sink it allLet the wind carry your callLet them whisper in the shadeLet them brew their lemonadeLet the Blatherskites be Twattle-baskets – M.H.
So here’s
Dreams can lift us up,Even when fears try to hold us back.Each journey is unique,And through sharing our stories,We find strength together.
I had an amazing chance to speak to a few hundred students at DECA recently. If you’re not familiar, DECA is a program for high school and college students who are into business.
Many of us have experienced it: being summoned for jury duty. The first feeling is usually anxiety, but then I see the dates. It turns out our firm has a trial set for that same court during that time. I think I’ll be excused since I work with the attorneys on the case. However, after
Our clients teach us many lessons. And through them, we are humbled. Humbled by their strength. Their resilience. Their power. Their ability to make more from tragedy than tragedy.
My client Brian B. continues to teach me that you can become bigger than yourself or your tragedy.
He just spoke for the second time to the Oregon state
Grief fuels her to strive,In Olympia, alive,For safe roads, we thrive.
Cammryn Gadd, the widow of Washington State Patrol Trooper Christopher Gadd (Chris), has turned her heartbreaking loss into a mission to save lives. Chris was killed on March 2, 2024, when an impaired driver slammed into his patrol car on Interstate 5 near Marysville.
The wait is over—The Velvet Hammer Podcast is back with Season 5, and this time, Karen Koehler is joined by Mo Hamoudi for a brand-new season of unfiltered, honest, and thought-provoking conversations.
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Episode 1: Introducing Mo – From
For Derrick
History does not die It is a witness With fingers unfurled Dawn’s first lightThe burdened chestThe clenched fistWisps of grass, dirtHistory standsTall and handsome It sings “rise, rise!”
– M.H.
The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, also known as the Third Enforcement Act, was a landmark law passed during the Reconstruction era to combat racial
Remembering the Challenger Disaster: 39 Years Later
January 28, 2025, is the 39th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger’s tragic explosion shortly after launch over the ocean in Florida, which in 1986 took the lives of all the brave, talented, and optimistic astronauts on board. A defective O-ring in the main rocket booster failed in
On a beautiful sunny winter day this week, a man was killed at Alaskan Way and Broad Street at the Seattle waterfront. Although investigation is ongoing, he may well have failed to appreciate that after a train had passed, it was not safe to cross the tracks, because another train, concealed by the height
Today, I testified for the 1 minute allowed by the Seattle City Council on the issue of lifting bans on using blast balls, flash bangs, and other munitions against protesters.
Before testifying, I wrote a long letter with 23 illustrated stories of some of the 51 clients we represented during the peaceful BLM protester case
