Stories from the Steps

1970s

  • An 11 year old with a bookie…

    STORIES FROM THE STEPS, VOLUME 3, CHRONICLE 2: Let me tell you a story about an 11 year old with a bookie & what that boy learned 52 years ago today & offer a slice of ‘70s life.      I got… Continue reading

    An 11 year old with a bookie…

  • Vol. 3 Chronicle 1

    “I have never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.” Thomas Jefferson, 1801 The Facebook memory machine relays that this group met for dinner on this day eight years… Continue reading

    Vol. 3 Chronicle 1

  • Thank you to everyone for making 2025 a success for this little writing adventure. It began two years ago, a crusade of creativity into sports, music & pop culture. An effort hoping with each effort to equal creatives with words… Continue reading

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  • Vol. 2, Chronicle 35: Genesis

    FOREWORD: Three years ago, December 16, 2022, these steps met their final student footprints. In the past three months, they met their demise.      I didn’t know it lying on that couch in Pearl, Mississippi that “Stories from the Steps”, with… Continue reading

    Vol. 2, Chronicle 35: Genesis

  • Vol. 2, Chronicle 33

    DAD’S & STAGES, AN SEC TICKET STORY: In a few hours, people who paid an average of $796.42 a ticket, will see Kalen & Kirby take the stage & pit their 10+ million dollar salaries & million dollar NIL payrolls… Continue reading

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  • Vol. 2 Chronicle 31

    LIFE ADVICE FROM OCTOBER, HOMECOMING 1976:        On the 26th day of October in 1976, it was Homecoming at a little school that now exists only in memories. This past week, as dementia opened another front in its dirty little war… Continue reading

    Vol. 2 Chronicle 31

  • Vol 2, Chronicle 30

          Today, October 21st, will be celebrated across the pond by remembering Nelson entering the aquatic arena at Trafalgar in 1805 a 6 ship underdog & pitching a 20-0 ships lost shutout against the French. Over here, on the eve of… Continue reading

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  • Vol. 2, Chronicle 24

    SUNDAYS & SEPTEMBER 7th’s WITH THE APOSTLE PAUL:  On September 7, 1974, exactly fifty one trips around the sun ago as I write, I watched the white with orange “T” helmeted Tennessee Vols play UCLA on TV. Like all our… Continue reading

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  • Vol 2, Chronicle 23

    STORIES FROM THE STEPS, VOLUME 2, CHRONICLE 23, DEFINITIONS:      Urban slang & the great guitarist Jimi Hendrix have a differing definition of “gypsy eyes” than me. I’ve increasingly felt that the eyes of that nomadic lifestyle are wise & tough… Continue reading

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  • Vol. 2 Chronicle 22

    LIBARY (sic) DAZE : My circumstances have led me to the library over the last 3 weeks. The first fortnight, a group project moving a school library from the 1st floor to the 2nd.       As with all group projects,… Continue reading

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