J. Michael McGee5 days ago4 minJack 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,...
J. Michael McGeeMar 247 minLeaning on PeopleI 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,...
J. Michael McGeeMar 116 minMr. PI 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...
J. Michael McGeeJan 274 minThe 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....
J. Michael McGeeDec 1, 20223 minThe Write Right bookDon Ranly and colleagues wrote The Writing book in 1984. At that time, Ranly was a professor of journalism at the University of Missouri....
J. Michael McGeeOct 7, 20223 minWhy I WriteSome thirty years ago an advertisement ran in the Phoenix Business Gazette for a stringer. In journalism, a stringer is paid by the story...