Favorite sites? The verdict is in

Michael Donohue, retired judge, Spokane County Superior Court, and senior partner, Judicial Mediation Group, based in Spokane.

“According to my wife, I spend an obscene amount of time at my computer, both at home and at work. I use it to avoid more serious pursuits and honey-dos.

“Among the many Web sites I visit regularly are those that reflect my interests du jour.”

As one interested in law and the practice of mediation:

Mediate.com — A site where mediators around the country post articles on the practice of alternative dispute resolution.

Courts.wa.gov — to keep on top of what my former colleagues are up to.

www.law.com — The National Law Journal.

I’m a voracious reader and, sometimes, listener:

Alibris.com — for used books.

Auntiesbooks.com — for new and used books.

Amazon.com or Barnesand Noble.com — for new books.

Audible.com — for recorded books I download to my iPod.

I eat, therefore I am:

Cooksillustrated.com — for feast.

Southbeachdiet.com — for famine.

I’m a news and politics junkie:

Nytimes.com

Seattletimes.nwsource.com/

Slate.com

I am a member of a barbershop chorus and quartet.

Spebsqsa.com — The Barbershop Harmony Society.

Pagesofharmony.org — Spokane’s men’s barbershop chorus.

I am a failed poet and dabbler.

Poets.org

Poetry.com.

Bartleby.com

I do genealogy research.

Ancestry.com

Cindislist.com — for links to genealogy sites and blogs.

archives.gov/genealogy — a government site connected with the National Archive.