The Wrecking-Ball Question
To ask someone what is great about their situation when the sun is shining is easy. To ask when their child has died, or their
31 August 2026
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Craig Jones
To Bee or Not to Bee…
A sudden impulse, an intentional crash and burn. Who knows what motivated a yuong man on the verge of winning to deliberately chuck it? One
30 July 2026
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Quixote in Sandals
A pleasant walk on a South Carolina beach becomes a meditation on things achieved… or not. Was the whole chase a waste? Or did the
1 April 2026
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That’ll Show ‘Em!
Craig JonesContributor “I wish I had cancer.” That’s the way it came, barely audible, somewhere between a thought and a whisper. I may even have
31 December 2025
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Gratitude So Close to the Bone of Life
Craig Jones Columnist It’s November once again, seriously autumn, and the year is seriously elderly and seriously coming undone. Can a year be in its
29 October 2023
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Eat A-Plenty and Keep A-Goin’
Craig JonesGuest Contributor When asked if I’d like to contribute to this very worthy effort some of the lessons I’ve learned in life (so far),
25 August 2022
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Every Tree is Full of Angels
Craig JonesLegacy Columnist Until my freshman year in college, all the Christmases of my youth passed in the same white American way. Heavily church-related, with
28 November 2021
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Life Tattoos
Craig JonesLegacy Columnist My late uncle told us a lot of stories when we were young, firing our imaginations and revealing his own. Some were
23 October 2021
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Hurdles Were the Way
Craig JonesLegacy Columnist Hurdles Weren’t In the Way. They Were The Way I was a pretty decent high hurdler on my high school track team back in the day.
27 September 2021
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The Path Is Made By Walking
By Craig Jones, Guest Columnist Gabriel Garcia Marquez once wrote that “Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers
29 August 2021
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I’ve Breathed The Mountain Air, Man
Craig Jones Columnist Thirty five years ago this past May I was making notes in a journal, writing in a high cold hand in a
27 July 2021
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Mom’s Long Reach
Craig Jones Legacy Columnist Do you have any idea what it’s like to have to write things down? I mean, to have to, like a
25 April 2021
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Fly Like An Eagle
Craig Jones Legacy Columnist oming back through the community boathouse parking lot at the end of my run a couple of seasons ago, I saw
26 February 2021
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My Muhammad Ali Moment
Craig Jones MDI Columnist Two images come immediately to mind whenever I think about “comebacks.” Sometimes when I want to get myself going and get
30 January 2021
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Footprints on the Sands of Time
Craig JonesColumnist The language of comparison is often a backdoor way to get at underlying truth. If I say “Legacy is a virus,” I am
1 December 2020
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