basketball
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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 36
ADVENT, THE WEIGHT: I haven’t felt very “Christmasy” this year. Perhaps I’ve lost the wonder or perhaps I’ve wandered with the weight of daily routine or maybe it’s just that 2025 has added weight by stripping the word normal from… 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 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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Vol. 2 Chronicle 10
THE SUNDAY NIGHT DIATRIBE & FINAL 4 THOUGHTS: Tonight, as I set the timer for my 5:00 AM emotional support caffeine & face the ever increasing prospect of the question in this IRL game of Jeopardy to the answer of… 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 