by Craig Jones | Jan 28, 2019 | Craig Jones Notebook, Features, Successful Communities, Uncategorized
Craig Jones Columnist It did not look good for men’s health overall at the beginning of the 21st century. An article in the NY Times reported that men committed 90 percent of homicides in the United States and represented 77 percent of homicide victims. They...
by Craig Jones | Dec 26, 2018 | Craig Jones Notebook, Features, Successful Careers
Craig Jones Columnist On Denali in May of 1986 I was faced with a classic decision. I was up there with my long-time climbing buddy Ralph, and he’d been stricken with high-altitude cerebral edema or HACE, also known as “mountain sickness,” a very dangerous...
by Craig Jones | Nov 26, 2018 | Craig Jones Notebook, Features, Successful Families
Craig Jones Columnist I started to hate Christmas shortly after my first wife and I had kids. Had I been engaged in gratitude work back then, I might have confronted my burgeoning disgust and resentment before it really took root. Someone would have challenged...
by Craig Jones | Oct 22, 2018 | Craig Jones Notebook, Features, Grateful for the Challenges
Craig Jones Columnist Good morning, gentlemen. It’s good to have you all here at this month’s meeting of The MDI Sessions. Welcome to everyone listening by radio, as well, and online, where you can find us at...
by Craig Jones | Sep 19, 2018 | Brotherhood, Craig Jones Notebook, Features
Craig Jones Columnist I’m going to use the word one time and one time only, though dignifying it with the appellation “word” is a status it does not deserve. Thereafter, if needed for clarity, it will be referred to as TWTSNBN (the word that shall not be...
by Craig Jones | Aug 19, 2018 | Back To School, Craig Jones Notebook
Craig Jones Columnist The third and deciding game of the 1951 National League pennant between the Giants and the Dodgers was decided by a ninth inning walk-off home run by Bobby Thomson. The hit, dubbed “the shot heard ’round the world,” from a line...
