Article Archives: Words with Woods

Dumb and Dumber

September 18, 2014 | by CJ Woods III

In 2002 two high school seniors published a book that went unnoticed by me until I saw it at the 2014 Benton House book sale. I’m not sure who did notice the book in 2002, but it is a funny bit of business about “real dumb laws.” “You May Not … Read More

Words From Woods

September 11, 2014 | by CJ Woods III

My nephew and his bride had a son and in August of this year, I sent my “nephewlet” a book. I wrote a note to him, though he is only six months old, and told him that the pictures of him posted on a social networking site by his parents … Read More

I’ll Dance For You

September 4, 2014 | by CJ Woods III

My friend called me, distraught; she had heard the news of the death of a beloved celebrity. “I feel like I’ve lost a family friend,” she said. I listened as she mourned, but I made few comments. I once stood in misery on a dock in Florida as that same … Read More

1969

August 28, 2014 | by CJ Woods III

I have a few thousand songs on my iPod, which play as I fall asleep at night. I will sometimes waken to a song that I must climb from my bed to identify, but in the weeks before the publication of this column, I often woke to more familiar offerings … Read More

Let ’Em Eat Fish

August 21, 2014 | by CJ Woods III

In 1975, while living in Los Angeles CA, my first bride and I vacationed in Nassau. On our return, we visited relatives in Pittsburgh. During this visit my bride and I went to see a movie. At its end, I said to her, “If I had seen Jaws before we … Read More