Emplatre taped the intro and outro as well as the pilot episode of my podcast, The Cajun Counselor, which debuts on November 12-TOMORROW!! I’m going to try to regularly put out two episodes a month. Beginning sometime in early 2026, The Cajun Counselor will...
As we round the turn on the last week in September and the 4Q of 2025 begins, this is shaping up as a perfect kind of weekend for me-even should the Astros fail to make the playoffs as I began predicting at the beginning of the season. I never believed in this Astros...
In this blog entry, I comment on the legislative process behind enactment of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, which Congress passed and President Biden signed into law on December 29, 2022. That act included a significant piece of legislation on estate...
Have you ever considered the following? There's a "last time" you have done every single thing that you’ve ever done in your life. Some of these activities were only done once or twice. Some were significant things, but most probably weren’t. However, for many of...
I recently was a guest on long-time psychologist Dr. Doreen Downing's multiple award-winning and top 5% of podcasts by the number of downloads podcast, "Find Your Voice, Change Your Life." The subject was my personal story around my fall-from-grace, eventual...
In 1995, Professor Phil Harmelink, CPA, the then Chairman of the academic Department of Accounting at the University of New Orleans (UNO) asked me to replace the legendary Freddy Herzog (who worked for the IRS for over 60 years) teaching Estate and Gift Taxation in...
I saw a meme that said: The days that break you are the days that make you. Been there. Done that. Bought the f@$king t-shirt. Immutable truth. Buckle up, buttercup. Jimmy Duggan was right: there's no crying in baseball. I'm a Stoic in my personal philosophy in the...
In this final blog on my Code of Whole-Person Professionalism, I cover the final six pledges and associated “annotations,” i.e., pertinent or supportive quotes, as well as some parting thoughts. I hope that you enjoyed it. To order my affairs and conduct my work in a...
In this blog, I continue the consideration of my “annotated” Code of Whole-Person Professionalism with six more pledges from the Code and their associated “annotations,” i.e., pertinent quotes that support each pledge: To consider my overall duty to the legal system...
In this blog, I continue with three more pledges in my Code of Whole-Person Professionalism and the associated “annotations,” i.e., supporting or illustrative quotes. To consider “the big picture” in my advices to clients, taking into account common sense,...