Author: Megan Davia Mikhail
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Three Lessons Learned From The Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Growing up, I dreamed of becoming an attorney, even a judge. My dreams were wide open, and anything was possible I was told. I succeeded throughout high school and college and ultimately had the opportunity to attend law school. I had no fear of gender bias going to law school; I had never thought about…
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Comparative: William Kent Krueger’s “This Tender Land” and “Ordinary Grace”- Part 1
The author, William Kent Krueger, is incredibly talented. I am so happy to have discovered his books. Based on a book list for summer 2020 and buzz about “This Tender Land” I read that book first. Followed very quickly after (as soon as my request came through in hard copy from the library!) I read…
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A Comparative: Kristin Hannah’s “The Nightingale” and “The Great Alone”- Part 3: Love
If you are reading this comparative for the first time, I recommend reading through parts one and two to give more background. For a quick synopsis, reading Kristin Hannah’s, “The Nightingale,” piqued my interest to read more by this amazing author. I was so impressed by her writing abilities. She created a mesmerizing and eye-opening…
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A Comparative: Kristin Hannah’s “The Nightingale” and “The Great Alone”- Part 2: Identity
If you are reading this comparative for the first time, I recommend part one to give more background. For a quick synopsis, reading Kristin Hannah’s, “The Nightingale,” piqued my interest to read more by this amazing author. I was so impressed by her writing abilities. She created a mesmerizing and eye-opening world of Nazi occupation…
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A Comparative Book Review: Kristin Hannah’s “The Nightingale” and “The Great Alone” – Part 1
Reading Kristin Hannah’s, “The Nightingale,” piqued my interest to read more by this amazing author. I was so impressed by her writing abilities. She created a mesmerizing and eye-opening world of Nazi occupation in France during World War II and two very strong female lead characters, one of whom is the narrator. I went in…
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The Power of the Disrupted Healthy Habit
What is it about habits that they can make you feel so good while you are routinely doing them and so bad when you fail to do them? They are magical, little, repetitive routines that can build strength both physically and mentally, and yet if anything disrupts them we feel ashamed, at a loss, incomplete,…
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Traveling As an Antidote for Quarantine
During the last few weeks, I took time with my family to plan and take a trip of a lifetime: a very long and first family road trip. It may sound like a Griswold family vacation, but it was better than that, believe me. After so many months of seeing the same sidewalks, same walls,…
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Reading as a Refuge
During this pandemic, with limited abilities to get out and about, reading has become my refuge. The sudden and fear-inducing situation of the COVID-19 pandemic in March led me to think of other difficult times in our nation’s history, specifically World War II. I wrote about this in my Coping Mechanisms article – see my…
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Well-Being: Create a Garden
It may just be the pandemic fatigue setting in, but there is something about gardening this year that is offering more self-satisfaction and happiness. It is refreshing to create life with these small blooms and fight for victory against the shutting down of our lives by the coronavirus. Although not with the same dire needs…
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Well-Being: Sleep
During this pandemic, I’ve noticed a lot of articles about sleep issues. I understand. I am right there with you. It is a difficult time to feel settled enough to fall asleep and sleep peacefully through the night without any wake-ups. I set out to find ways to increase sleep quantity and quality. Here is…
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Well-Being: Coping Mechanisms
This state of pandemic is not going away and seems to have settled in for a long duration – longer possibly than I would like to anticipate, think about, or project. So how do we cope? As an attorney, writer, parent, now home school teacher, and any other myriad other roles any of us have…
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Well-Being: Give Grace
Well, we are still here. Staying at home. Teaching our children. Face-timing our parents. Zooming with family and friends. Nothing feels the same and yet everyday seems the same. More and more the time is passing without any certainty on when this will end. This week especially time has started to catch up with me,…
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Well-Being: Surrender
Here we are at the end of another week of sheltering at home. I think the news this week of schools continuing to be shut down until May 1st in Illinois was a big hit of reality for all of us to take in and digest. I can definitely say I was holding out…
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Well-Being: Ways We Can Maintain Well-Being While Sheltering At Home
This has been an unprecedented past two weeks. I can’t say that any of the measures that have been put into place could have been expected or prepared for, but at this point, we all need ways to maintain our well-being while sheltering at home. Right now, as I write, my son is calling me,…
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Attorney Well-Being: Birthdays
If you are a regular reader of Keen Living, you noticed that there was no posting last Friday on March 6th. My goal for writing on Keen Living is to post every Friday. I had hoped to post my article that I just posted today on expanding CLE topics, but it never happened. What happened?…
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