Just Write It: Creativity in Covid America

By Sarah E. Murphy I recently visited my brother T.M. Murphy’s Monday morning session of The Just Write It Class in Falmouth Heights. Thankfully Covid-19 hasn’t cancelled the 2020 season of this long-standing summer tradition, now in its 25th year. Since he first started teaching in The Writers’ Shack, Ted has encouraged kids to followContinue reading “Just Write It: Creativity in Covid America”

Freedom Village

By James F. Murphy Jr. *Copyright 1993. Reprinted in “Chicken Soup for the Veteran’s Soul,” 2001. My most vivid memory associated with the American flag flashes to Korea and a gray, clammy day in early August 1953. The Korean War had come to an end a week earlier, on July 27 at precisely 10 PM.Continue reading “Freedom Village”

Casino by the Sea

Poetry and Photography by Sarah E. Murphy/Copyright 2002 I loved venturing up the boardwalk to Under the Sun sandy bare feet slapping against hot planks to fill brown paper bags with fireballs and bulls’ eyes.  I’d always stop and peer in the windows wanting to know if it matched my mind’s eye women in pastelContinue reading “Casino by the Sea”