Article Archives: Words with Woods

Thanks For The Time

November 26, 2020 | by CJ Woods III

When my mother was alive and I would visit her in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, she would often ask her “Joni” to sing a song to her. My middle name in Jon, and my family nickname is Joni (pronounced “Johnny”) and my mother’s first three children used to sing together in the … Read More

The Clean Plate Club

November 19, 2020 | by CJ Woods III

In a segment of a series I was watching on Hulu, a character made reference to the “clean plate club” as he instructed another character about a peculiar torture. I was surprised to hear the term, as I’d never before, heard it outside of my childhood. My father frequently used … Read More

A New Leaf

November 12, 2020 | by CJ Woods III

A 70-degree Sunday afternoon had me on the front lawn, raking leaves. Not for the first time did I ponder on the tradition that leads to the act of gathering dead leaves into piles for the purpose of sending them off to another place. Neither of the two homes that … Read More

This is Me

November 5, 2020 | by CJ Woods III

A friend from long ago posted on a social networking site that she had somehow missed the TV show This Is Us. I didn’t respond to the post, but referred to it recently when a member of the Weekly View team, while sipping cider with me, said that she and … Read More

Boo

October 29, 2020 | by CJ Woods III

A friend made a comment on a social media site a few weeks ago, concerned that she was being premature in putting up Halloween decorations in her Missouri town. I responded to her that I live in Irvington, the Halloween capitol of the planet, and advised her to go get … Read More