Mike Magee Everyone should have a friend like Tony. Back in 1965 when we graduated from High School together in Bronx, NY, I doubt either of us would have predicted that 55 years would pass before we shared lunchtime again. Nor that when we met again, Trish and Joanne would be joining us, or that […]
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Making Peace With The Turtles
Mike Magee I have always had a fascination with turtles. Growing up on a northern New Jersey lake, with access to small boats and the freedom to explore, I learned early to spot them from a distance by the telltale reflection of the sun on their shells as they perched together on logs jutting out […]
Mike Magee When I asked my brilliant literary agent, Jill Kneerim, when I would know that my book proposal was ready for submission, she replied directly, “It will be ready when I say it is ready.” Eleven months later, in April, 2018, she finally green lit the project, and two weeks after that, in an […]
_____________________________________________________________________________ Mike Magee Between Pope Leo XIV and J.D. Vance, Catholicism is all over the news these days. The Vice President, with obvious Presidential ambitions, has chosen Conservative Catholicism as his political vehicle, featuring it on the nationwide book tour of “Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith.” In the meantime, the Pope took time […]
Mike Magee “What I didn’t expect was that in this country, home of ‘Truth, Justice and the American way,’ hope would be determined by politics.” Christopher Reeve, April 27, 2004. ___________________________________________________________________________ Eight months to the date before the 2024 Presidential election, Donald Trump likely tuned in on the sale of the original first copy […]
Mike Magee Last week, policy wonks from the right and the left, finally found a topic they could agree on – Kids are no longer having (as many) kids. Specifically, teen pregnancies dropped an additional 10% in the US in 2025. This is an acceleration of a trend which began two decades ago. Teen births […]
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Reflecting On The Reflecting Pool.
Jenny and Forrest (July 6, 1994) – Forrest Gump. Mike Magee The historic pool is, of course, not a swimming pool, although at 18 inches deep at the edges and 30 inches deep in the center, the National Archives does have a 1926 photo of children safely wading in it. Seven decades later, a fictional […]
