Article Archives: Words with Woods

A Conversation With a Friend

November 17, 2016 | by CJ Woods III

A friend sent me an email with an invitation to see a play; I was unable to get tickets to the play, but her invitation was two-fold, and included a “meet for coffee” at the Heidelberg Café. I’ve known Karyn and her husband, Dave, since we three worked together at … Read More

Uphill Both Ways

November 10, 2016 | by CJ Woods III

“I notice that you do a power walk when you go uphill,” my brother said to me one day. We were walking back down the street that led to his apartment after an uphill walk to the grocery store. I had spent, to that date, three weeks at his place … Read More

Hair

November 3, 2016 | by CJ Woods III

“Stop by the dollar store and get me some of those disposable razors, will you?” My brother’s request surprised me because of the three razors that kept leaping from the ledge in his shower. “They’re pulling like someone was shaving her legs with them,” he said. I looked at him … Read More

Library Love

October 27, 2016 | by CJ Woods III

Each year it is estimated that over 246,660 women in the United States will be diagnosed with breast cancer and more than 40,000 will die. On November 5th, 1895, in Pittsburgh, Pa., Andrew Carnegie attended the dedication ceremony of a building that bore his name, a massive gray sandstone structure … Read More

Sidewalk Shenanigans

October 20, 2016 | by CJ Woods III

More than 3.1 million U.S. women with a history of breast cancer were alive on January 1st, 2014. Some inner consciousness of deference guides my interactions with the people I meet on the sidewalks of my wandering. I have not observed the same caution and consideration in the people I … Read More