CJ Woods III’s Story Archive

A Different Lens

March 19, 2015 | by CJ Woods III

I was a young man unused to visiting bars, but I was curious. I visited a tavern touted by my fellow art school students and sat at the bar to observe the social interplay. As I looked around the crowded pub, a woman took the stool next to me, and … Read More

Twister

March 12, 2015 | by CJ Woods III

On Friday, March 2nd 2012, I was in the kitchen of a dying friend when he called to me from his bed. “Cj: I think we need to get into the basement.” He had been watching the news and the weather report was grim: a tornado was coming and it … Read More

Life Hacks

March 5, 2015 | by CJ Woods III

I saw this post on a social media page: “Why is everything a ‘hack’ all of a sudden. Vinegar hacks, cooking hacks, curling iron hacks. What does that mean and how did it start? I don’t remember hearing it before a few weeks ago. Just one of those weird things … Read More

Convenient Morality

February 26, 2015 | by CJ Woods III

I remember hearing some religious people disparage some other religious people for being “buffet” religious people. (I am not naming the religious people.) The term was coined to describe those who picked over the tenets of a particular faith and selected those that fit their individual worldview. People often take … Read More

Just Being A Kid

February 19, 2015 | by CJ Woods III

My first bride called and left a message on a recent Monday evening; I knew what the message was going to be, without listening to it. I had already gotten a text from our daughter: “Horrible way to start, I know, but she’s fine.” Lisa, my eldest daughter, knows that … Read More