by Craig Jones | Jun 1, 2020 | Confronting your Barriers, Craig Jones Notebook, Features, Uncategorized
Craig Jones Columnist My mom had dreams of being a published writer, and she always through the years referred to “The Writing,” rather than “My Writing.” I hadn’t thought of that until recently though it was there, hiding in plain sight....
by Craig Jones | Apr 29, 2020 | Craig Jones Notebook, Facing Your Fear
Craig Jones Columnist I’m turning 67 this month and still don’t know if I might really be a coward. John Berryman My deepest and darkest fear is that, when it will most be needed, the courage vault will be empty. Indeed, the poet John Berryman once said...
by Craig Jones | Apr 1, 2020 | Craig Jones Notebook, Legacy Lampoon
Craig Jones Columnist Jonesy’s Notebook The transcript of an interview with some MDI men who stepped up and made a difference during The Great Toilet Paper Crisis from the COVID-19 Pandemic. Q: Well, thanks to you and the efforts of your men’s team, in...
by Craig Jones | Feb 28, 2020 | ANGER!, Craig Jones Notebook, Features
Craig Jones Legacy Magazine Columnist All the soft-tissue injuries of my youth came, if sport-related, in the normal course of swift human or inanimate contact. Football, basketball, track, falling off bicycles, even wrestling, but not as the result of a fist swinging...
by Craig Jones | Jan 23, 2020 | Craig Jones Notebook, Features, My First Love
Craig Jones Legacy Columnist In one of his essays dated January 28, 1960, E.B. White wrote about a first love in this way: “I made my first rail journey into Maine in the summer of 1905, and have been riding to and fro on the cars ever since. On that first trip,...
by Craig Jones | Dec 26, 2019 | Craig Jones Notebook, Creating Success
Craig Jones Legacy Columnist I found out that my twice-weekly blog posts (Notes From the GratiDude) each take about three minutes to read. I learned that because our friend helped me get set up on a platform called Medium, which I knew nothing about. She’s been a...
