Stories from the Steps

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  • Vol. 2, Chronicle 12

    FRIED EGGS & THOSE THAT GOT ME TO THE RIGHT PLACE: Passion Week 2025 is done but I’m certain it will never be over. Perhaps because this Friday is my mom’s birthday & I’m not fond of the place where… Continue reading

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  • THE PRODIGAL GRIEF, A STORY ABOUT UNCLE DAVE: Maya Angelou wrote, “I answer the heroic question ‘Death where is thy sting?’, with it is here in my heart & mind & memories.” I seem to have too many friends grieving… 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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  • 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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  • A NEW SONG FROM THE ASHES OF 4,382 DAYS AGO: “I waited patiently for the LordHe inclined & heard my cry He lifted me up out of the pitOut of the miry clayI will sing, sing a new song…”From “40”… Continue reading

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  • SPORTS STORIES FROM THE STEPS, SEASON 2, GAME 1: Let me tell you a story about a Baptist boy & a bet & what I learned 51 years ago today, as I got baptized in betting & a glimpse of… 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 52

    3AM THOUGHTS: I haven’t felt  “Christmasy” this year. Perhaps I’ve lost the wonder or perhaps I’ve wandered with the baggage of a parent with dementia that got too heavy. Either way, as I’ve sought the season’s joy & hope, my… 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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