inside the mind of Valorie Davenport
Listen
Take time, my friend, and listen
to the whispers and the screams
which cry out from those around us -
from men impoverished and of means.
As they suffer life’s cruel lessons:
aching losses; pain, deceit.
All, mere victims of a callous world?
Or did some fall beneath our feet?
For all too often, “Wealth” – it shields us.
“Fame” and “Power” build a [...]
In trying to explain the source and depth of my long-term frustration in working joint ventures with a particular lawyer, I wrote the following comments to a mediator (of a then current fee dispute). In doing so, I realized that, while I was quick to point out how difficult it had been for me to [...]
In late October, 2009, two long time friends suddenly died in a tragic and unnecessary car accident while rushing back home from Hobby Airport along rain soaked Allen Parkway to retrieve documents which John O’Quinn (a well known Houston lawyer) had forgotten but needed before he left for an out of town mediation later that morning. My other friend, John’s [...]
Last night I was talking with my son and he reminded me of something I told him years and years ago: that to be great at anything is a choice. (And, unfortunately, that mediocrity, sneaks up when you are least expecting it and just takes over before you realize it has globed all over you, like you’re [...]
Hello World!! Yes, I am still alive. I have not truly deserted you and I actually missed talking to you (or maybe just to myself) on this thing the entire time I have been M.I.A. Unfortunately, for me at least, I was not off having some spendid time walking along some wonderful isolated, pristine beach [...]
“You would be surprised by all the things you could accomplish if you didn’t worry with who got the credit.”
I am discouraged by the blog because, somehow, it allows all kinds of spam messages. I don’t know how to get them off without deleting everyone. Right now I have 4,393 comments on my first post, mostly from drug manufactures. Does anyone know what I can do. This buries any real comment on my post [...]
This started out to be a kind of funny post, but then it grew serious. Maybe I will say it after all…and just go where it leads.
My initial thought was that I had experienced something of an epiphany. As of late, I have been realizing how many mean spirited people say angry and cutting things [...]
There will be 2 new posts. The first, the rewrite; the second will attach the orders, the long sought after transcript and articles about Judge Kent’s recent retribution. Stay tuned.
Some feel that my earlier post on Judge Sam Kent was too kind: that I needed to expain how his abusive conduct and lies deeply hurt me emotinally as well as my reputation and practice….that is now a work in progress, and will be published soon.