Cam Marston
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 9
- Latest publication
- Sep 25, 2026
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- Jul 10, 2026
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Flipper Did His Best (opens the original)
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I’m in hour four of the Delta SkyClub in the Atlanta airport. I have two more hours to go. I’ve eaten two dozen carrot sticks, a couple servings of some sort of mustard chicken thing, a pile of pita chips and so many small cubes of cheese that tomorrow should worry me. And some chardonnay. I’m not sure how much. Enough that the bartender sees me coming and begins pouring me a new glass. My wife is with me. She’s now retired and is able to join me in my travels to interesting places. We’re return
Satan is a Termite (opens the original)
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It was a thoughtful meeting, pensive, cerebral. We were all leaning over the table with pens poised over paper for important notes to be taken. "The church needs your help," they said, "and we have a small role for you." I listened as the issues and challenges were made clear, and then I heard myself beginning to speak and thought, "Don't do it. Don't say it," but it was too late. "To help the campaign," I suggested, "let's personify the termites as Satan. We'll create an image of an evil termit
A Quiet Morning (opens the original)
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For several years now I’ve thought about my last children leaving home and wondering how my wife and I would fare in our next life chapter of empty nesting. I thought I may like a quiet and neat home or not being waked late at night with kids coming in from a night out with friends and many, many fewer dirty dishes in the sink. When the older kids came home at the end of the school year in May, my wife and I celebrated a full house and reveled in having all four kid’s childhood bedrooms full aga
Lining Up to be Judged (opens the original)
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We sure love cruelty, don’t we? As refined and as smart and as elevated as we claim to be, we love us some cruelty. We line up to dish it out and, strangely, we line up to potentially take it. Saturday afternoon I watched the culmination of Auburn’s bid day. My favorite youngest daughter got a bid. I watched as she ran from Neville Arena to the quad where she and her 130 some odd new best friends, whom she had never met before, squealed. Some squealed in delight. Their dream had come true. Some
Climate Battles (opens the original)
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It’s the time of year in Alabama where when the temperature tops out at only ninety degrees we feel like it’s a crisp fall day. The mercury is so high so often that ninety degrees feels like a cool breeze, and right now, the weather report online says the “feels like” temperature is one hundred twelve, a full twenty degrees higher than the actual temperature due to the humidity, and it will go higher. It’s days like this that I wonder why I live here. I beg for clouds and rain. As awful as it is
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