Law Clerk on Gilligan's Island

Square Droppings

In September 1998, I quit my job at a big law firm to go work as a clerk to the Supreme Court of the tiny South Pacific island nation of Palau.

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Read true stories from my travels in my Palau diary.

Take the web's only virtual tour of the Republic of Palau.

Having trouble visualizing all this?  Try the photo galleries. 

Be enlightened by words of wisdom from the Palau Treasury.

Got a law degree and a typhoid vaccination?  Check out the FAQs on how you too can snag a clerkship in Palau.

And, of course, I've got links for people wanting real(ly outdated) information about Palau. 

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Brief screeds on whatever happens to be stuck in my craw right now. Could be fiction, essays, opinion, or other frivolous langiappe.  You won't know unless you go.

Every second of our time on Earth is precious.  But since you seem predisposed to fritter away your life, you might as well do it somewhere interesting (a collection of links that were great in 2001, but which are now probably all 404'd).

What's new?

3/1/05: Since I'm so bad at responding to e-mail, at long last, a FAQ page for everyone wanting info on getting a clerkship in Palau. 

3/1/05:  Greetings, Suvivor fans.   What you see up there to the left is an old site of mine.  It lies dormant, lovingly preserved in its original glory by the internet's finest scientists, to take you back to that innocent time in the late twentieth century when "Survivor" meant nothing more than those guys who did that song from "Rocky III."  As for the rest of this site, well, it's pretty much an embarassment, like that closet full of flannel shirts.  Someday, it'll return as a fascinating repository of humor, fiction,   travel writings, and such.  Until then, it's just plain ol' crap.  Feel free to wallow.

3/16/02:  It took six months to recover from it, but my summer vacation to Mexico is now immortalized in "Down Mexico Way," the newest piece in Stuck in my Craw.