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Vol 3. Chronicle 8, Redux
A PERSONAL NOTE on changes & what you need to know from two years ago in what was known as Volume 1, Chronicle 14. CHANGES: 1)The day count is now 4,463, the years are at 13 & counting, & the… Continue reading
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Vol. 3, Chronicle 6
STORIES FROM THE STEPS, THE GENESIS, SOUVENIRS: Four years ago yesterday, I walked in & out of the halls you’ll read about in what follows for the final time. The next day, I opened a notebook & my soul. I… Continue reading
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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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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 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 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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Vol. 2, Chronicle 18
As the Carpenter’s sang, “long ago & oh so far away”, I informed my dad some 40 years ago that I was leaving school for a job on the team sales side of the sporting goods industry. He begged… Continue reading
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VOLUME 2, CHRONICLE 4, NATIONAL WOMEN & GIRLS IN SPORT DAY 2025, let me tell you, my beautiful granddaughters, a story from the steps: This isn’t meant to be about athletics, though it is about women in athletics. Women who… Continue reading
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Vol.1, Chronicle 51
(FROM 12/16/2022, A GOODBYE LETTER TURNED GENESIS: We all have landmarks on our human journey, significant places or events like Peniel in Genesis for Jacob after a night grappling with an angel or Ray Kinsella in the Iowa corn after… Continue reading
Stories from the Steps 