MURPHY’S LAW: Healing and hoping the rest will stay in tact
I’m running out of organs I can live without.
Murphy's Law
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MURPHY’S LAW: Stretching out the Valentine’s Day season
BY PATRICK MURPHY Make way for Valentine’s Day. I was out of town recently, walking around a store as workers were removing all the Christmas… Login to continue reading Login…
MURPHY’S LAW: Hoping for a year of joy and happiness for everyone
BY PATRICK MURPHY Happy New Year. Here we are again, the start of a new year, filled with hope and expectations. None of us know… Login to continue reading Login…
MURPHY’S LAW: Enjoying the magic of the Christmas season
BY PATRICK MURPHY Merry Christmas. Hard to believe a year has passed already, and here we are again, hunkering down with family and friends. We’ll… Login to continue reading Login…
MURPHY’S LAW: Even the worst days are brightened by child’s smile
BY PATRICK MURPHY My wife and I going to be grandparents again. Alek and Anna announced they are expecting their second in June, and we… Login to continue reading Login…
MURPHY’S LAW: At some point, age flipped the script on me
BY PATRICK MURPHY Age is an interesting concept to me. At some point the script flipped on me. I remember a time when it seemed… Login to continue reading Login…
MURPHY’S LAW: The amazing jobs done by airport workers
Iâm gaining an appreciation for airports and the people who work there.
MURPHY’S LAW: Spending some time in a happy place
Home away from home.My wife, Kelly, and I spent time at Disney World last week.
MURPHY’S LAW: Many areas becoming local newspaper deserts
The deserts are expanding.Not the ones with cacti and sand, but the ones associated with newspapers.News deserts are areas without local newspapers, and according to the Medill State of Local News Report 2024, the number of local news deserts in the United States expanded this year with 127 newspapers shuttering, leaving nearly 55 million Americans with limited to no access to local news.However, not all is bad news in the news business, researchers learned there’s been a net increase of more than 80 stand-alone local digital news sites in the past year.Now, I am obviously pro-newspapers, but you have to take your wins where you can get them.For the third consecutive year, the Medill Local News Initiative at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications, conducted a nationwide, county-by-county study of local news outlets to look at trends in the local media landscape.According to a story on the report, this year’s report is the most comprehensive undertaken by Medill, with the research including the growing number of national network news sites providing local coverage.
MURPHY’S LAW: Kids do amazing and sometimes unexpected things
It’s always funny when someone else’s kids act up — even when it’s your granddaughter.Lyla, 2, had a rough day at daycare last week, well, actually, the other kids had a rough day thanks to Lyla.The daycare called to let Alek and Anna aware Lyla was hitting, biting and scratching the other kids.They told the daycare to put her in timeout.When Alek picked her up at the end of the day he had a conversation with her:Alek: Lyla, did you hit other kids today?Lyla: Yes.Alek: Did you bite other kids today?Lyla: Ya.Alek: Lyla, do you scratch other kids today?Lyla: Yes.Alek: You can’t do that to the other kids.Lyla: OK.When Alek called and told my wife and I about Lyla’s day, we couldn’t help but laugh.It’s her responses that got me.