Steve Straessle
@steve_straessle
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Father, writer, educator.
Little Rock, AR
Joined July 2020
RT @JayJenni: Thank you, @steve_straessle, for this column in @ArkansasOnline on my book Carry the Rock. I’m flattered that some dozen year….
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Catholic High is leading Central 27-20 with just minutes left in the game.
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Ann cleaning some important heirlooms before hosting important people. That’s today’s column:.
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Beautiful tribute and important letter from Melody and Chris Piazza. I hope parents everywhere read it. And, I really hope those parents share it with their high school and college aged kids. An Open Letter to The Sewanee Purple via @SewaneePurple.
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Chris and Melody Piazza In the fall of 2017, our son, Sam Piazza, walked into our bedroom to tell my husband and I that he had decided that he was “definitely going to Sewanee.” In the …
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RT @ArkNate: Anyone who grew up as I did in a small town in Arkansas ought to come hear @steve_straessle talk with these two authors this….
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A trip to Tybee Island reminds this teacher that personality is just the beginning.
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“Hey, folks, sorry if I’m distracted. All I can think about is structure fires right now.” The young guy flexed his pectorals almost imperceptibly. It looked like his extra-tight navy blue...
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Days after D-Day: an American bomber, a failed parachute, a French community gives a lesson in honor. Happy 4th!.
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On June 12, 1944, an American Liberator made a pass over Romille, France. The plane’s mission, in support of the D-Day aftermath, was to soften German positions as the Allies advanced. The...
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RT @AllArkansasPrep: Here comes @rocketalumni 🏈🏈🏈⭐️ Preps Coach John Fogleman 🎉 See him honored at the June 10 Preps banquet! Join us @Rock….
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My column today honors the @uacoehp Donaldson Scholars and the amazing family that brought the scholarship to fruition. All in the name of future teachers.
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I crossed the I-430 bridge as the sun rose above the Arkansas River. May is a busy month in a high school and, for that reason, I rarely leave town during this month. I had graduation practice to...
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My son’s visit with the French family that hid his great-grandfather in WWII provides the backdrop of an amazing story of mothers.
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His parachute opened. Seeing its billowing silk gave him a little comfort. He could see other parachutes far on the horizon, the crew having bailed at different times. The sleek silver...
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Rites of spring: First Communion for our youngest today. And she tolerated dressing up (Ann, that is.)
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I just finished @elicranor’s OZARK DOGS. How to describe it? Gritty. Surprising. Extremely well written. Awesome. Another great read from this homegrown writer. Well done, Eli. Put it on your summer list, for sure.
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Baseball in Little Rock, particularly on Kavanaugh Field, in today's column. OPINION | STEVE STRAESSLE: Playing the field
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I found a cardboard box sitting in my home library. Its weathered sides told me it'd been around a while, and a label on top read, "Hands Off!"
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A visit to Sewanee sparks memories of firefighters - and hope for our newly fire fighting son.
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My family spent Easter visiting our college son at Sewanee, that beautiful place gracing 13,000 pristine acres high on the Cumberland Plateau. We've spent every Easter for almost a decade there...
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My column today revisits Colony West and lessons learned there — lessons made relevant again by the March 31 tornado. Memories are safe (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette), Apr 10, 2023 .
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Childhood memories live in a corner of one’s soul. They reside there as the building blocks of emotion and experience, forming the base of how a person views the world and reacts to it. I’ve...
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RT @soho_press: Happy #BookBirthday to OZARK DOGS by Eli Cranor!. “Raw, gritty, and darkly beautiful noir at its finest. Cranor digs deep i….
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A year without a snow day just doesn’t feel right.
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I’m writing this in mid-March. Despite freezing temperatures right now, there’s no chance of snow left on the calendar. Winter precipitation missed Little Rock again. What a disappoin...
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Visiting the Lincoln Memorial is powerful. Visiting the Lincoln Memorial with one of our children is priceless. Reminds me of my first visit with my dad in 1988.
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