Author: Michael Murray

Last night was the Golden Globes awards ceremony and as usual I’ve been asked to provide some of famously biting commentary on the red carpet fashions. ************************** As far as I’m concerned Madonna has never looked better! This is the best she’s looked in 25 years! Her outfit is refined, sophisticated and sexy, exactly the…

I found this letter folded into the pages of a used book I bought at a garage sale on the weekend: *********************************** December 17, 2003 The Andersons’ 2003 Christmas Praise Letter Praises for our Precious Savior as we reflect on His birth! Psalm 37:25 – “I was young and now I am old, yet I…

The other day while walking the dog down the street I paused to take a sip of water. As I did so, a squirrel fell from the tree and landed dead, directly at my feet. It was an utterly shocking moment and I immediately began to text my wife, Rachelle. These are the text messages…

Today I have give the blog over to Heidi, our Miniature Dachshund for the day: ************************************************************** Dear Stupid World: Heidi very unhappy with you! You BAD DOG, BAD DOG WORLD! You slink off to corner and shiver, never be certain if get dinner again! Heidi hate your guts and want to rip them out and…

Yesterday I took my first yoga class in the history of my non-flexible life. I was in over my head, and after an hour of being improperly attired, gasping, wobbling dangerously and lurching about as if blindfolded, existing wholly out of synch with the rest of the class, two other students actually approached me to…

On New Year’s Eve Rachelle and I threw a dinner party for 13 friends. Instead of having each person stand-up and share a resolution for 2012, we asked that everybody write one down for someone else at the table. The idea was that we’d then jumble them all up in a hat and later read…

Most weeks I write a column, typically connected in some way to popular culture, for a web site called Pajiba. In one of my more recent pieces I conceived of a scenario at a dinner party where each guest was required to stand up and relate a Christmas memory that was for whatever reason, vivid…

After returning from Toronto to Ottawa after the Christmas holidays, my parents received this handwritten report from the Cat Sitter they had hired to look after their two pets: The Frito and Pippa Diaries December 24th pm Both cats were waiting in the hall on arrival. Frito and Pippa played the entire time I was…

In the lineup for the post office at the Shoppers Drug Mart a woman is making a radiant display of her baby. I’m not sure, but I think that the baby is wearing a Burberry jacket and this prompts me to make a remark, “She’s a stunner, it’s like she just stepped out of the…