It was a pleasure and an honor for me to be speaking with you today. Thanank you. What kept going through my mind as i read your new book is with a hard look at last have been for you to write. You uncovered so many deep and extremely painful parts of your past and your family. Can you tell me more about your writing process and how you decided to go about writing this book . Guest it was starting to come together in 2017 i wrote a story for the New York Times about what happened to my exhusband and it was called the lawyer the addict so i did a lot of research for that piece and research and thinking about it and exploring it with my family and my children and seeing if it was okay with them to go ahead and tell the story and figure out why we were doing it and what it meant to us. All of it was largely t to makig meaning out of something that felt almost arbitrary and shameful and guiltynd also to try to understand what was going on for peter and in the Legal Profession in terms of S
In 2017 i wrote a story for the new york city about what happened to my exhusband peter and it was called the lawyer, the addict, and so i did a lot of research for that piece. I did a years worth of research in thinking about it and exploring it with my family and my children and if it was okay with them to go ahead and tell the world the story and figure out why we were doing it and what it meant to us and all of it was largely to make some kind of meaning out of something that felt almost arbitrary and shameful and felt guilty about and also to try to understand what was going on for peter and understand what was going on in the Legal Profession in terms Substance Abuse and depression and anxiety. After that came out, it surprisingly had a viral life and had millions of shares and i got a lot of feedback from readers like Young Lawyers who say i am worried who will wind up like your exhusband, depression, anxiety, also using lots of substances. I also at that point started thinking
Work it must have been you uncovered extremely painful parts of your past so tell me more about your writing process when and how you decided to go about writing the book. This started even before the book. 2017 i wrote a story that was call beware of the addict so a lot of the research for that piece and exploring it with my family and children to see if it was okay with them and figure out why we were doing it and what it meant to us. To make meaning out of something that was arbitrary and shameful but also to understand what was going on in the legal professio profession. After that came out, it surprisingly had a viral life and i got a lot of feedback from readers especially Young Lawyers who said now im worried i will end up with my exhusband who was facing depression and anxiety. So then at that point i had started to think about a memoir so i feel my process started before and then i think another eight or nine months talk about high Addiction Centers and people that i met on th
56 in San Francisco and satellite radar if you look just off to the north, thats the system that were tracking thats going to cool us off and bring rain chances overnight into tomorrow morning for far northern california, but it could spread a little further down south right now, looking at some of the models, the forecast in 15 minutes, the san jose temperature trend will be in the 70s. Again its going to be a little cloudier today, its a give and take but thanks to that well be a lot cooler. Let me give you a rundown, san jose 80 degrees. Look at concord 83. This is a big drop, yesterday we still managed to hit some 90degree temperatures. We hit triple digits on friday. We did. It will be nice but ill talk about the rain chances coming up. We always listen when you say rain. Oh, yeah. Thank you very much, vianey. We begin with some tragic news out of santa rosa, a 13monthold baby boy was found dead in a home and the man who is with him is accused of murder. Police say just before 1 0
Coast some of the us and Congress Members live there is well what is the significance off that city cape can. You have good cause to anyone see where the host of the lives of our way taken out so weve become a symbol by the fact that the very last thing on the south was because of our progress of the very thing that representative we have brownsville. By george your people were taken out from the conservation of the evidence ok and so mr young guy we really appreciate you coming on were looking forward to having you here now studio to talk more about the book youve written called you young colts and for me n. P. N. Can escape codes thank you thank you. Not gonna has say so the year off returned to mark the anniversary the government is billing it as quote a major landmark spiritual and birthright journey and an invitation to the global african family to come to ghana they dub the africa made one Young American who came home. 26 year old ivory kula and his colleagues i getting ready for