Stories from the Steps

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  • 4:57 AM

    The 4:57AM Coffee Chronicles, a resolution & a PSA☕: RESOLUTION – my New Years resolution is that In 2026, I resolve not to drink coffee any more…I also resolve not to drink coffee any less. PSA – These are your… Continue reading

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  • Vol 2 Chronicle 20

    VOLUME 2, CHRONICLE 20, BOTH INDEPENDENCE DAYS & THE ANCHOR: PREFACE: The 6 or 7 minute read that follows in 3 chapters, is my pastor’s fault. This Sunday past, he took pies in the face before our congregation at a… Continue reading

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  • Shorty’s cake pan

    VOLUME 2, CHRONICLE 15, SHORTY’S CAKE PAN: “Though she be but little, she is fierce…” ~~ Shakespeare~~ “A Midsummer’s Night Dream” This is your paternal great-great-grandmother. Twenty four years ago yesterday, May 17, 2001, we lost her. Also pictured with… Continue reading

    Shorty’s cake pan

  • 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

    Vol. 2, Chronicle 12

  • VOLUME 2, CHRONICLE 11, AN APRIL 19TH 250 YEARS IN THE MAKING: Four years ago on this day, I said goodbye to Mel, a Navy veteran I called friend at my town’s National Cemetery & I said hello to two… 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

    Vol. 2, Chronicle 7

  • 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 50

    (PREAMBLE: This was originally written two years ago today, 12/14/2022. As you read this memory, you might ask yourself, “How tough was she?”. So tough that I made a 99 on a test for misspelling a word. Every test had… Continue reading

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  • Vol.1 Chronicle 43

    STORIES FROM THE STEPS, VOLUME 1, CHRONICLE 43, TUESDAY GIFTS FROM GRANDADDY: “…It’s not what you got, it’s what you give, it’s not the life you choose,. it’s the life you live..”~Tesla~ “What You Give “ On this day in… Continue reading

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