Stories from the Steps

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  • Vol 2, Chronicle 13

    THE CAREGIVERS ARPEGGIO, BIRTHDAY EDITION: Music’s broken chord, the arpeggio, occurs when notes normally played simultaneously are played individually. Anyone taking care of someone with a physical or mental ailment knows the difficulty of dealing with brokenness of what once… Continue reading

    Vol 2, Chronicle 13

  • 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 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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  • Vol. 2 Chronicle 6

    BIRTHDAY THOUGHTS FROM THE DEEP END WITH MISS JULIE’S POOL BOY: It’s the boss of Pool Boy’s birthday & she’ll spend it chlorine laced while MJPB closes up his mom’s house. The first birthday they spent together was at a… 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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  • 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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  • Vol. 2, Chronicle 3

    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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