Arrests, Attorneys, and Judges

Kelly Cardon
Arrests always come about for a reason, or even many reasons. Whether the arrest is legal or not then becomes the question. If it’s not, and a judge rules that way, and the proper motions are filed, then the charge can be dismissed. The right attorney becomes the decision you must now make to find out if the arrest was… Read More

New Year, New Life?

Kelly Cardon
Many people will make commitments over the next week, most the time, with the idea o bettering their lives. Resolutions are great, but only if they create new habits. As I’ve mentioned here before habits are a great evolutionary tactic, but, they often can create negatives, if not continually reevaluated and adjusted. Sometimes they need to be replaced in total.… Read More

Running the Gauntlet

Kelly Cardon
Whenever someone consumes alcohol or takes impairing drugs, legal, prescribed, or otherwise, and they are away from where they intend to spend the night, they have created a gauntlet. A gauntlet of police or troopers, who are being paid to spot impairment. A gauntlet of risk to themselves, to their future freedom, their jobs, the well being of their family,… Read More

Owning our actions

Kelly Cardon
When we own property, real or personal, we become more powerful in many ways, economically, socially, politically. But, when we own our actions, our thoughts, our mistakes as well as our successes, our power increases exponentially. Our positive growth accompanies this increase. When make the decision to no longer own what we create, that growth and power begins their respective… Read More

Walking the Line on DUIs

Kelly Cardon
Those that push the envelope on getting tagged with a DUI eventually wind up with one. They’ll always wind up all that goes with it. This doesn’t mean that they will be convicted of the charge, but they will suffer the humiliation of handcuffs and arrest, the expense of the whole process, the self deprecation along with the loss of… Read More

Paraphanalia and Controlled Substance: Loss of License

Kelly Cardon
If you are convicted of either if these two charges you will lose you driver’s license, even if it had nothing to do with driving. People often do not understand this fact, and don’t find out until they’ve posted bail, or plead guilty, they receive notice from Driver’s License of the revocation of their license for 6 months, a longer… Read More

Taking action upon an arrest for DUI

Kelly Cardon
Two courses of action are set in motion when you are arrested for DUI: administrative action by the Drivers License Bureau and criminal action by the court system. You must, in order to have any chance to save your driving privilege, within 10 day of the arrest, request a hearing in writing. That hearing will usually be held within 30… Read More

Growing Into Our Future

Kelly Cardon
You, me, all of us will always have a future, as long as we live. Whether it’s five minutes before we die or 50 years before we pass. Whether you are 6 and discovering all, 16 and questioning everything, 30 and changing life course, 50 and pontificating about life, or 75 and ruing your lack of accomplishment, you have a… Read More

Using Adversity

Kelly Cardon
The more we’re challenged, the better we become. What doesn’t kill us, makes us stronger. Failure brings success. All of these have the same theme. Why then do we groan at challenge, stress, and failure? Welcome the difficult, the query, the obstacle, the error. When you’ve made a mistake, invest in it, learn from it, use it to make your… Read More