athletics
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DEAR DAD, Today marks the 13th time I’ve celebrated your birthday without you. Before you left us in September 2013, we had taken advantage of time & said the things fathers & sons need to share. The five years… Continue reading
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GRIEF, DENTYNE & DEMENTIA: “It was Dentyne”. That line from “Hoosiers” is my favorite movie quote ever. Hickory Husker basketball coach Norman Dale instructs his guard, Buddy Walker, that the man he’s guarding is chewing gum & he wants Buddy… Continue reading
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Vol.3, Chronicle 3
VOLUME 3, CHRONICLE 3, IT’S INTIMATE: Prologue. The piece that follows (Presented in its original one big paragraph, I’m sure to the chagrin of a long time friend now on the other side of the globe. He advised me on… Continue reading
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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
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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
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Vol. 2, Chronicle 33 1/2
SHALLOW THOUGHTS FROM THE DEEP END WITH MISS JULIE’S POOL BOY IN HIS P.E. OFFICE, 4 ½ days ‘til Christmas Break edition: This week, MJPB pondered a silent pool phone while side hustling in the physical education world. He pondered… Continue reading
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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 32
NOT MUCH TO BE THANKFUL ABOUT(?): These last 13 months have been, if not the most challenging period of all my circuits around the sun, they’re certainly in the team picture. According to one fella that crossed my path this… 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
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Vol. 2, Chronicle 26
(4:45AM & THE GOSPEL OF MARK, NOT SO) SHALLOW THOUGHTS FROM THE DEEP END WITH MISS JULIE’S POOL BOY: On this day one year ago, Miss Julie unlocked the pool gates at 4:45 in the morning. She did it not… Continue reading
