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
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J. Michael McGee
Apr 233 min read
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 184 min read
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
Jan 215 min read
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, 20234 min read
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, 20233 min read
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, 20234 min read
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, 20234 min read
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, 20235 min read
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, 20233 min read
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, 20237 min read
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, 20236 min read
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, 20234 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20223 min read
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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