Stories from the Steps

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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 8

    LAST DANCE, CONFESSIONS AT 2:52AM: “…and let me take a long last look before we say goodbye…”~~Don Henley, “The End of the Innocence”~~ Nearly three years ago, in a life decision I’ve sometimes regretted, I made the choice that teeter… Continue reading

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  • Vol. 2, Chronicle 7

    VOLUME 2, CHRONICLE 7: THE NEIGHBORHOOD STRIKE ZONE, let me tell you girls (& everybody else) a birthday story. Today would’ve been my Dad’s, your Great-granddad’s, 93rd birthday. It’s my 12th time without him & I’m getting better at Dr.… Continue reading

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  • Vol. 2 Chronicle 6

    BIRTHDAY THOUGHTS FROM THE DEEP END WITH MISS JULIE’S POOL BOY: It’s the boss of Pool Boy’s birthday & she’ll spend it chlorine laced while MJPB closes up his mom’s house. The first birthday they spent together was at a… 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. 2 Chronicle 1

    BELIEVER’S TICKET: Today, thousands of tickets reside on cell phones with a QR code waiting to be used for admittance to college football playoff games like tonight’s Orange Bowl or tomorrow’s Cotton Bowl. There was a day however, when tickets… 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

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  • Vol.1 Chronicle 49

    HAPPY HEAVENLY 108TH TO LOTTIE BELLE, the one about her & Broadway Joe: “Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty & well preserved body, but rather to skid in… Continue reading

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  • Vol 1, Chronicle 48FREE BASEBALL FLASHBACK TO 3RD & O’NEAL: As Juan Soto prepares to sign a deal that pays close to $125 a minute for his next few circuits around the sun & cause MLB concession prices to look… Continue reading

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  • Vol.1, Chronicle 47, 40 Years…

    40 YEARS, EXITING THE FRIEND ZONE, SHALLOW THOUGHTS FROM THE DEEP END WITH MISS JULIE’S POOL BOY: As MJPB pours the 2nd of his self imposed daily limit of 2 cups of coffee at 5:43 AM, effortlessly ignoring the fact… Continue reading

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