Article Archives: Words with Woods

A Clean Place, With Light and Pool Tables

October 23, 2014 | by CJ Woods III

I was walking home from work one day when I glimpsed something interesting in the window of a bar. I lived four blocks north of the bar, and my job was four blocks south of it. I had walked past the bar for a couple of years without ever noticing … Read More

Bee Aware

October 16, 2014 | by CJ Woods III

I was admiring my landlord’s 1950 Hudson Super 8 one sunny afternoon, taking pictures of the car and talking to him and my neighbor about cars and life. The car was parked just off the graveled roundabout in front of my apartment building, and clear of two great trees on … Read More

History and Mystery

October 9, 2014 | by CJ Woods III

I climbed the steps leading away from the light-rail station onto the street above it; a woman bounded up the steps behind me and at the top, asked for directions to a street. I pointed her in the right direction and she startled me by asking, “Do you want to … Read More

Don’t Fall

October 2, 2014 | by CJ Woods III

“I miss you most of all, my darling, when autumn leaves start to fall.” I was standing with my neighbors beneath a tree, chatting about the beauty of a 1950 Hudson Super 8, listening to the cries of delight from the children at a backyard birthday party and watching a … Read More

The Beaten Path

September 25, 2014 | by CJ Woods III

I sat down with my 3-year-old daughter and told her that she had done something that needed to be addressed by a punishment. “I am going to have to spank you,” I told her. I turned her over my knee, raised my hand high above my head, and brought it … Read More