A Feather in your Cap
My Uncle Bill stretched back in his recliner, eyes closed, a Budda smile, headphones were slightly askew over his full head of gray hair....
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J. Michael McGee
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J. Michael McGee
- Jul 26
- 3 min
The Cowboy Candidate
Donald J. Trump embodies a modern cowboy spirit with resilience and determination. Will America embrace this ethos in their leader again?
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J. Michael McGee
- Jun 19
- 3 min
The Spirit of the Stairway
I was at a party decades ago with my then girlfriend to welcome home a friend upon his return to town. I’d introduced the crowd to my...
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J. Michael McGee
- May 31
- 3 min
A Thin Line at the Front
My friend’s older sister died. I rang him up at his Connecticut home. Rich, melodic, ”Hello.” “It’s McGee,” I said. “Hey.” I got to the...
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J. Michael McGee
- Apr 23
- 3 min
Heavenly Body and a Need to Know
“Of course you have heard of Pascal’s Wager?” my friend asked. “Uh, remind me,” I said, knowing where his question was headed. Our recent...
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J. Michael McGee
- Mar 18
- 4 min
Listening-a Tough Business
We are given two ears and one mouth to listen more than we talk, Epictetus, the Stoic philosopher, said. “When people talk, listen...
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J. Michael McGee
- Feb 25
- 5 min
Regrets
Regrets, I’ve had a few but then again too few to mention. I did what I had to do………. And I did it my way, Frank Sinatra sang in the 1969...
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J. Michael McGee
- Jan 21
- 5 min
The Invalidator: Exploring the Psychology of Verbal Mugging
There are many beasts in the backwoods that come out to play from time to time. One, according to medical doctor Brian Kaplan is, The...
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J. Michael McGee
- Dec 28, 2023
- 4 min
A Genuine Westerner, Judge Sandra Day O'Connor
The old beige rotary phone rang. It was somewhere in the late 1970s. I answered, “Courtroom.” Pause. Michael, is that you? Familiar, soft...
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J. Michael McGee
- Dec 11, 2023
- 3 min
A Ukrainian Artist’s Pine: War's Impact and Hope for Survival
Andrii Dankovych stares out his window toward the east where the fighting is. He contemplates his future. And whether his country will...
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J. Michael McGee
- Sep 23, 2023
- 4 min
Jack of All Trades Need not Apply
“Give me a sturdy lad from Vermont or New Hampshire, who has tried it all,” Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in his 1841 essay on resilience,...
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J. Michael McGee
- Jul 18, 2023
- 4 min
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Watching Fox
It was in August of 2014 and I was lounging on the couch soaking in the news. The story of the day on my go-to channel, MSNBC, was the...
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J. Michael McGee
- Jun 27, 2023
- 5 min
Neighborhood of Dads
The United States Census Bureau says that today nearly 18.5 million children grow up in homes without fathers, giving the United States...
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J. Michael McGee
- May 4, 2023
- 3 min
The Coach
He picked up his plate and with deference to the others said, “I’m going to eat with my friend.” The mostly white-haired men at his...
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J. Michael McGee
- Mar 24, 2023
- 7 min
Leaning on People
I cleared my throat, dimpled the Windsor knot in my tie and knocked. A TV blared on the other side of the door. It was January 20th,...
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J. Michael McGee
- Mar 11, 2023
- 6 min
Mr. P
I called out the man’s name, then did a sniff check of the waiting room. The briskness of Fall had softened the ripe smell of body odor...
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J. Michael McGee
- Jan 27, 2023
- 4 min
The Dumbest Player
“McGee!” he yelled, digging his fingers into my girdle pads, jerking me backwards. “I said, line up off the right shoulder of the tackle....
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J. Michael McGee
- Dec 1, 2022
- 3 min
The Write Right book
Don Ranly and colleagues wrote The Writing book in 1984. At that time, Ranly was a professor of journalism at the University of Missouri....
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J. Michael McGee
- Oct 7, 2022
- 3 min
Why I Write
Some thirty years ago an advertisement ran in the Phoenix Business Gazette for a stringer. In journalism, a stringer is paid by the story...
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J. Michael McGee
- Jun 8, 2022
- 1 min
Review of God is a Mortician by Finn Briscoe
#humorousscifi #absurdscifi #satire
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