Author: Michael Murray
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Ms. Monopoly
These are the text messages my wife Rachelle sent to me the other day: ******************************************* Rachelle: You’re still mad about losing at Ms. Monopoly, aren’t you? Rachelle: A resignation is a loss. Rachelle: Yes, it is. Rachelle: I know. Rachelle: It was clear you were thrown off your game when you weren’t allowed to use…
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Back to School
“I’m fancy,” Jones announces. Standing there in our apartment, looking like a million bucks. Mommy taking photographs of him from every angle. First day of school and there are premonitions of frost in the morning air. But overhead, an endless, vividly blue sky, sunlight touching everything. Jones is goofing up the street with his friend…
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Tropical Storm Dorian
As Tropical Storm Dorian transitions into a hurricane and tracks toward Florida, it’s worth noting that it used to be that the US only used female names for hurricanes. This changed in 1978, for obvious enough reasons, and both male and female names have been used in alternating fashion ever since. However, it is now…
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Jones in the morning
The day is fresh and clean, so much lighter than yesterday. Jones is four now, and the clouds are high in the sky. White against blue, they are great island chains in an unknown ocean. They move quickly, shifting, rolling past the fading moon. Walking up the sidewalk, a lollipop in his mouth, Jones is…
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An Incident
There was an incident. Not a serious incident, but an incident nonetheless. My wife Rachelle bought a phone that had been advertised on a community message board she belongs to, and it turned out the phone did not work. All sorts of texts flew back and forth between us and the woman who sold us…
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Van Morrison
Share what the song Sweet Thing by Van Morrison has meant to your life: Lucas Stanford 52: “I was sick with cancer. It was advanced and I wasn’t expected to survive. I was still a young man, not yet in my 30’s, my entire life still in front of me. I felt I had wasted…
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