CJ Woods III’s Story Archive

To Sleep, Perhaps?

March 26, 2015 | by CJ Woods III

I saw a program on TV about the business of “sleep.” Apparently, we are a nation of sleep-deprived people, a condition that has spawned an industry to address that. Our choices are many, as long as money is no object. There were special beds priced from $7,000 to $100, 000. … Read More

A Different Lens

March 19, 2015 | by CJ Woods III

I was a young man unused to visiting bars, but I was curious. I visited a tavern touted by my fellow art school students and sat at the bar to observe the social interplay. As I looked around the crowded pub, a woman took the stool next to me, and … Read More

Twister

March 12, 2015 | by CJ Woods III

On Friday, March 2nd 2012, I was in the kitchen of a dying friend when he called to me from his bed. “Cj: I think we need to get into the basement.” He had been watching the news and the weather report was grim: a tornado was coming and it … Read More

Life Hacks

March 5, 2015 | by CJ Woods III

I saw this post on a social media page: “Why is everything a ‘hack’ all of a sudden. Vinegar hacks, cooking hacks, curling iron hacks. What does that mean and how did it start? I don’t remember hearing it before a few weeks ago. Just one of those weird things … Read More

Convenient Morality

February 26, 2015 | by CJ Woods III

I remember hearing some religious people disparage some other religious people for being “buffet” religious people. (I am not naming the religious people.) The term was coined to describe those who picked over the tenets of a particular faith and selected those that fit their individual worldview. People often take … Read More