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Olga Statz Olga Statz, J.D., LLM, is a lawyer who teaches legal writing and litigation skills. She lives in New York with her husband, daughter and parakeet.

Lifestyle

A Sucker For Christmas, or The Still Small Voice

By Olga Statz

I’m not cool, and it is at Christmas time that the scope, depth, and breadth of this “uncoolness” is manifested with the greatest intensity.

Family & Friends · Lifestyle

What I’m Thankful for: My Beautiful Black Dad

By Olga Statz

I am staggered by my good fortune. God saw fit to give me my very own Hero. My hero doesn’t wear a cape, and he doesn’t fly, but that is his strength—he is there, always there when and where you need him, and is never flitting about. He eschews the flapping piece of fabric in favor of well-cut suits. Kryptonite…

Family & Friends · Lifestyle

Battleship Steel: Or, What I Learned During My Summer Vacation

By Olga Statz

From her daughter, her aunts and a truth spoken at the United Nations, Olga Statz reflects on the tensile strength of her family's women — even the most vulnerable.

Lifestyle · News

Of a Childhood, a City and a Church’s ‘Douceur de Vivre’

By Olga Statz

It was the 1970’s and New York was in all its ruined, decrepit, life-threatening glory. There were piles of garbage everywhere, burnt out, gutted buildings, rent-strike signs and prostitutes casually strolling Eleventh Avenue. And in those days, pimps were pimps—they wore day-glow, double-knit polyester suits, plumed hats and unspeakable shoes, their eyes sharp and their broad-collared shirts open to their…