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...
by Craig Jones | Jul 26, 2019 | Craig Jones Notebook, Features, Scars
Craig Jones Columnist I was thinking about the earliest scars of my boyhood, the ones which I still wear, the ones which track time, like knowing where you were when JFK was shot or when Abbey Road came out, and came up with two. The First Was from scratching...
by Craig Jones | May 30, 2019 | Craig Jones Notebook, Features, Our Father's Legacy
Craig Jones Columnist My dad died when I was five, in 1959. Lung cancer, non-smoker, who knows why, one chance in a million or billion (I don’t know) lung cancer, when he was younger than either of my sons are now. Any thoughts I have ever had about legacy and any...
