"Running, Blogging, Taking Risks -- and Watching 'The Devil Wears Prada.'"

I started my career as a lawyer -- I was clerking for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor when I realized that I really wanted to be a writer – and I'm still very interested in lawyerly concerns.

One way I stay abreast of what's happening in the world of law -- and also keep my resolution to Stay connected to my past -- is by reading Above the Law, a substantive (a very lawyerly word) but also extremely funny online "legal tabloid." I'd wanted to meet its founder editor David Lat for a long time...