CJ Woods III’s Story Archive

Words, Phrases & Sports

March 21, 2013 | by CJ Woods III

By the time this column appears in print, “March Madness,” the term adopted by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) to describe the basketball tournament it has developed into a spectacularly lucrative business, will be a full-blown epidemic. Official play opened on March 19th, and will end with “one shining … Read More

All Watchdogs, Great and Small

March 14, 2013 | by CJ Woods III

I was sitting in my friend’s kitchen when his “dog alarm” went off. Max The Maltese was barking in the living room. I bent down to touch him: “Keeper Of The Community, Watcher Of The World,” I said. Bill’s brother laughed and mocked the Maltese: “Oh, look, CJ! A leaf … Read More

Maple Syrup Road Trip

March 7, 2013 | by CJ Woods III

A reader sent an e-mail to the Creative Director of this paper and she forwarded it to me. Steve Meneely had read my “Road Trip” column and suggested that someone might take another trip to what he described as “the (only) national maple syrup festival.” So I did. The National … Read More

The Bigger Story

March 7, 2013 | by CJ Woods III

Steve Meneely’s e-mail to the paper gave a link to the National Maple Syrup Festival and while doing my research I felt that, within the story of the festival, there was a bigger story. The festival, in its fifth year, is not just a fun weekend of tree-tapping and maple … Read More

Memories Hide In Corners Of My Mind

March 6, 2013 | by CJ Woods III

“I think I’m getting Alzheimer’s” my mother said, peeling potatoes at the pass-through window in her tiny kitchen. I was startled, but asked her why she thought so. “Because I forget things,” she said. I smiled. “You’ve been doing that since I was five,” I told her. Which was true: … Read More