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26 J. App. Prac. & Process v (2026)

handle is hein.journals/jappp26 and id is 1 raw text is: THE JOURNAL OF APPELLATE PRACTICE AND PROCESS FOREWORD JINX While driving my kids to school a few weeks ago, my second grader tried to jinx me. For those unfamiliar with being jinxed, it occurs when one person says jinx to another after they say the same word at the same time. Once the person is jinxed, they cannot speak until someone says their name. Unfortunately for my son, I told him that mommy was unjinxable.1 To my surprise, he accepted my unjinxable status and then proceeded to tell me about how serious the game of jinx was taken in the 1980s. The irony of my son, born in 2018, telling me how the game of jinx was played in my childhood, was not lost on me. But I blamed the entire situation on the children's show Bluey, which features an episode set in the 1980s, involving the game of jinx.2 At this point you may be thinking, What does any of this have to do with this issue of The Journal of Appellate Practice and Process. Good question. As readers of this Journal's Foreword know, I like to find a theme that pulls the issue together. Finding a 1. I might need to submit unjinxable to a dictionary for formal word status. 2. BLUEY: Fairytale (Disney+, released Dec. 16, 2021). I highly recommend watching the show Bluey. It is hilarious. THE JOURNAL OF APPELLATE PRACTICE AND PROCESS Vol. 26, No. 1 (Winter 2026)