by Craig Jones | Apr 25, 2021 | Craig Jones Notebook, Dear Mom, Features
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 plant has to turn toward the sun. Most likely, you don’t. It’s a kinesthetic, restless, muscular thing, like how Hemingway said...
by Craig Jones | Feb 26, 2021 | Childhood Memories, Craig Jones Notebook, Features
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 boys working on what looked to be an enclosure for the two dumpsters there. This would render them less of an eyesore in this...
by Craig Jones | Jan 30, 2021 | Call it a Comeback, Craig Jones Notebook, Features
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 all caffeinated and motivated I look on YouTube and find the footage of Billy Mills winning the 10,000 meter...
by Rich O'Keeffe | Jan 28, 2021 | Call it a Comeback, Features
Rich O’Keeffe MDI Contributor I don’t like the constructs around “comeback” stories. The most common place we see those are in some sort of sports allegory when a team that was trailing on the scoreboard rallies to win the game. The comebacks are even more epic...
by Fred Boyles | Jan 27, 2021 | Call it a Comeback, Features, What Works on a Men's Team?
Fred Boyles MDI Contributor OK, there’s a problem. It’s a disease. And it is something we in our men’s circles must deal with. Problem Teams have a built-in death trap – it’s the bullshit found in our check-ins. Men can fall into the...
by Eric Louie | Jan 26, 2021 | Call it a Comeback, Features
Eric Louie MDI Contributor (Editor’s Note – the editor can validate this entire story; he lived with Louie at one point.) The job listing considered with a “what the hell.” I had a stretch in life that was particularly difficult in my early 50s. I...
