Intro to Alaskan Prosecutor

This is my initial posting to make sure that I'm doing this right. I have succombed to temptation as I have watched my wife become a blog-her.

I am a prosecutor in a small town and have been for a couple of years. My wife said it best when she said that I didn't go to law school to be an attorney but to be a prosecutor. I do love my job and feel like I get to "wear the white hat" but that doesn't mean that I can't complain (and laugh) about the joys of government work and the delightful people that I work around. (This is meant to be both true and extremely sarcastic.)

Having said all that, I don't think that I am your "typical" kill em' all and lot God sort em out guy. Nor do I think that is a typical prosecutor. I write this because I love it. I write it because when I watch those dumbest criminal things I frequently think "that's nothin'!" I want to preserve some of these memories and I'm just too lazy to keep a journal. I also hope to meet others who do what I do and other interesting folks. So we'll see.

The challenges and joys of this rare job are sometimes funny and often heart rendingly sad. It's real life for a lot of people...good guys, bad guys, victims, criminals....it's not that easy.