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Father’s Day
VOLUME 1, CHRONICLE 26, FATHER’S DAY 2024, ABSENT YET PRESENT: Sometimes I write, to paraphrase Maya Angelou, because it’s agony to bear an untold story in the soul or like today, I’m an empty penitent seeking a filling communion, seeking… Continue reading
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Vol.1, Chronicle 25: Streak of Love
STREAK OF LOVE: In Philadelphia, on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania, sits a legendary gymnasium named The Palestra. Outside that old barn’s front doors is a plaque that reads: “To win the game is great. To play the… Continue reading
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Vol 1, Chronicle 23, Casualties of War
VOLUME 1, CHRONICLE 23, MEMORIAL DAY, CASUALTIES OF WAR: By the time most read this, local scouts will have spent their Saturday morning placing flags on white markers at National Cemetery in observance of Memorial Day. My Dad returned from… Continue reading
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Vol.1, Chronicle 15: Dash
VOLUME 1, CHRONICLE 15, DASH: This weekend I received a text from one of the great cheerleaders* in my grand crusade of fingers poised over the typewriter keys to be the next great Southern writer like Faulkner, Capote, or O’Connor.… Continue reading
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Vol. 1, Chron. 12
DADDY’S, WEDDINGS, & FULL TREES: Yesterday morning, I drank coffee in a dark silence broken only by the light & sound of the TV & The Andy Griffith Show. I’d seen the episode, “Opie the Birdman”, the one where Opie… Continue reading
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Vol. 1, Chron. 10
VOLUME 1, CHRONICLE 10, GEOMETRY OF A MENSCH, let me tell you two a story from the steps: Today would’ve been my dad’s, your Great-granddad’s, 92nd birthday, it’s my 11th time without him & while he’s no longer present, he’s… Continue reading
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Vol.1, Chronicle 7, Souvenirs Redux
VOLUME 1, CHRONICLE 7, SOUVENIRS REDUX, let me tell you a story from the steps: Well, it’s really two intertwined stories, the first, a present day tale, the second published in March of 2022 though the scroll started on a… Continue reading
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Vol. 1 Chronicle 5, Pine tar & tennis balls…
VOLUME 1, CHRONICLE 5: Let me tell you a 2021 story from the steps. On this day in 2019, I wished my coach Doug Moser a happy birthday. I didn’t know it would be the last time, I didn’t know… Continue reading
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Volume 1, Chronicle 3
VOLUME 1, CHRONICLE 3, Let me tell you a story about what I learned 50 years ago today, January 14, 1974, other football thoughts & a 99 on a science test: Super Bowl 8 was played on the 13th day… Continue reading
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Vol. 1, Chronicle 2
VOLUME 1, CHRONICLE 2, let me tell you a story about THE TICKET: Today, thousands of tickets for movies, concerts, & museums reside on cell phones with a QR code waiting to be used like those for admittance for tonight’s… Continue reading
Stories from the Steps 