Murphy Row: Coffee, One Cream
Picture Love as a cup of coffee, rich and complex, bold and enticing. Coffee is longed for each day by those of us that are used to having it. Coffee exists as a labor of love from countless names...
View ArticleMurphy Row: Home is Where People Know Your Stories
Years ago at a slam poetry event in my hometown of St. Paul, Minnesota, I heard my favorite description of home. A brilliant poet who I cannot remember proclaimed, “Home is where people know your...
View ArticleMurphy Row: 7 Jobs on the Endangered Species List
Jobs much like species go extinct. Collectively as humans we can act in many ways to save them. Collectively as humans we will simply choose not to act in many ways and they will be gone the way of the...
View ArticleMurphy Row: Making My New Therapist Laugh
I recently came to the realization that I’ve changed a lot since my days in college, and not just my receding hairline and softening waistline. I used to be an ideological person who stood behind my...
View ArticleMurphy Row: The Adult Uniform, or Cartooning One’s Self
In a world filled with click bait headlines like “Adorable Dog Finds Stick: You won’t believe what happens next!” and Buzzfeed videos of the top 20 funniest moments of Citizen Kane, the art of a...
View ArticleMurphy Row: Corinthians 2016 (an Exercise in Plagiarism)
I did it, I did what no comedian should ever do. I stole from another comedian. Nothing more shameful or frowned upon exists in the community of comedians than stealing a joke. Yet every other week...
View ArticleMurphy Row: Murphy’s Law on Listening
“God! You need to learn how to listen!” is something I have shouted over my girlfriend’s voice more times than I care to admit. Listening, like love, is something I should only expect to receive as...
View ArticleMurphy Row: Everything You Need To Know To Love March Madness
First seen on TV, I never stopped playing it out in gyms. It continues as adult with mistake and waste paper bins. “Time running out, Five, Four, three,” the countdown begins, “Dribbles right, two,...
View ArticleMurphy Row: The Future Mrs. Candybrain
Few things filled Michael with simultaneous joy and trepidation like what stood in front of him, his newly Facebook-official girlfriend Rachel, and the decision over what candy to buy on this, their...
View ArticleMurphy Row: Life According to Parks and Rec
Everything I need to know about life, I have learned from the people of Pawnee, Indiana. This is life advice according to Parks and Rec. Find ways to express your profound love to your friends and...
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