Stories from the Steps

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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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    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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    (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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    (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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    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 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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    NOT MUCH TO BE THANKFUL ABOUT(?): These last 5 weeks have been, if not the most challenging period of all my circuits around the sun, they’re certainly in the team picture & according to one that crossed my path this… Continue reading

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    (38TH ANNIVERSARY) THOUGHTS FROM THE DEEP END WITH MISS JULIE’S POOL BOY: 38 years ago today, the Pool Boy clicked “I agree” on the non-negotiable, yearly renewable terms & conditions on his marriage app with Miss Julie. Terms & conditions… Continue reading

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  • Vol.1 Chronicle 42, Nat’l Coaches Day

    NATIONAL COACHES DAY ‘24, A STUDY IN BLACK AND WHITE OF WHAT YOU NEED: Yesterday, October 6th, was National Coaches Day. I’m intentionally late in posting on October 7th, but we’ll get to that. Coaches do so much that no… Continue reading

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