Stories from the Steps

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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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  • IMAGES & INSPIRATION, PORTFOLIO 2, COMPOSITION 1: Today, I looked out on a gym floor filled with children. Two caught my eye, one black, one white, one a student, one a prospect. The visitor, full of tears & nerves, was… Continue reading

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    STORIES FROM THE STEPS,  VOLUME 2, CHRONICLE 3: REDUX, AN EASTER STORY FOR MLK DAY.   “To make an apt answer is a joy to a man,and a word in season, how good it is!” Proverbs 15:32 On this day when… 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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    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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    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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  • STUFF, A BENEDICTION: I rounded another bend this weekend, a trip that both hollowed out & enriched my soul as we prepared my mom’s house for market & we prepped for moving her into assisted living. I mowed a yard… 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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