CJ Woods III’s Story Archive

Celebration

June 30, 2022 | by CJ Woods III

“Celebrate good times, come on!” — Kool and the Gang We have just emerged from the celebration of a new federal holiday, and we are sliding into the home of an old holiday. “Juneteenth,” the new holiday, celebrates the date in 1865 that enslaved people in Texas were notified of … Read More

Discuss Among Yourselves

June 23, 2022 | by CJ Woods III

Two teenaged boys riding in the back of a school bus stand up with AR-15 style automatic rifles and proceed to fire on the other students in the bus. Ultimately, 10 students were murdered by the two, who managed to keep police at bay with their superior firepower. This assault … Read More

Scam Wham

June 16, 2022 | by CJ Woods III

Sometime in 2017, a credit monitoring organization suffered a breach in its security and its clients were subsequently exposed to the shenanigans of unethical people and groups, groups who are intent on robbing us of our assets. I was one of the millions effected by the breach, though I lost … Read More

The Steel Ballet

June 9, 2022 | by CJ Woods III

One day, while driving North on Arlington Avenue, I noticed cars bouncing as they passed the intersection of Pleasant Run Parkway North Drive. Some cars drove into the left-turn lane to avoid the bounce and others drove close to the right curb. The ways that the cars moved suggested my … Read More

Three Times A Lady

June 2, 2022 | by CJ Woods III

A recent segment of “CBS Sunday Morning” brought me to tears, which is not an unusual event, as my three children will tell you. There is a skit that plays in my head where a child cries out, “MOM! Dad’s crying again!” The TV show segment featured an interview with … Read More