Before walking into Rose Cafe last week, I envisioned Judge Miller: stoic and bland. However, my preconceived ideas of him did not match the person capturing the attention of the already twenty or so seated audience members when I walked into the Cafe.  Before I arrived, someone must have asked him what his favorite case was during his professional career as a defense attorney because he was mid way through explaining a twisted case of potential kidnapping. Although his stories were interesting and slightly unbelievable, the bigger surprise to me was how laid back, appropriately animated, and engaging he was; he sipped espresso and imparted sage advice about the need to find the strengths of another person’s character besides simply noticing their greatest flaws.