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Wendy Hodge Articles

Spectacular: Part One

By WENDY HODGE You’d have to be crazy to do what we do. By “we” I mean Tim and myself and Tim’s parents, Jeff and Jerri. For 364 days a year, we plan and prepare and look forward to the Saturday after Labor Day with a couple hundred other folks, who are just as...
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No Excuse

By WENDY HODGE As I write this, we are 48 hours away from what has become a tradition for Tim, Tim’s parents and myself. The Saturday after Labor Day is the annual Daylily Spectacular at Bell’s Daylily Garden in Sycamore, Georgia. I had every intention of writing this...
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It Is Not Just A Table

By WENDY HODGE Fifty years is a long time, and it sure does fly by. In 50 years, you can raise a family, work hard at a job, see your children become adults, become grandparents yourself, retire and then grow old. You can celebrate, and you can grieve; you can dream,...
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My Mother’s Hands

By WENDY HODGE The very first memory I have is of my mother’s hands on my forehead. Her cool fingers, long and thin, were pressed to my skin to gauge how much fever I had. I was 4 years old, and we were packing up to move into a new house. That’s really all I remember...
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Donkeys and Big Fish — Part II

Donkeys and Big Fish — Part II

May 11, 2022

By WENDY HODGE When last we met, Tim and I were in Jasper, Alabama – home of the donkey statues and the actor who played Merle Dixon on “The Walking...

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Donkeys and Big Fish Part I

Donkeys and Big Fish Part I

Apr 28, 2022

By WENDY HODGE Home of the Vikings football team and the actor who played Merle Dixon on the Walking Dead, Jasper, Alabama, is quiet and quaint. We...

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Donkeys and Big Fish — Part II

Won’t You Be My Neighbor

Apr 20, 2022

By WENDY HODGE This morning, around 3:30 a.m., when I could not sleep and found myself standing in the kitchen reading a magazine by the glow of the...

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Donkeys and Big Fish — Part II

Undeserved Kindness

Apr 13, 2022

There is an ancient Indian proverb that states “Be kind to unkind people. They need it the most.” Whoever penned that sentiment many centuries ago...

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Donkeys and Big Fish Part I

Unsolved Mysteries

Apr 6, 2022

By WENDY HODGE Technology has opened the universe ... we have robotic surgery and driverless vehicles, digital money and quantum computing. We can...

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Donkeys and Big Fish Part I

Tell Me Something Good

Mar 30, 2022

By WENDY HODGE In the midst of bad news about politicians run amok and world powers warring against each other and against the innocent and weak,...

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Donkeys and Big Fish Part I

Soot Life

Mar 23, 2022

By WENDY HODGE When I was a kid, I suffered from a fear of fire. It all began in the first grade. One of the first lessons we all learned in the...

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Donkeys and Big Fish Part I

Intervention

Mar 16, 2022

By WENDY HODGE Verizon has sent me a notice. Apparently I am one of their “most valued” customers, and I can claim a bundle of rewards by simply...

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Donkeys and Big Fish Part I

GRAY

Mar 2, 2022

By WENDY HODGE This morning I woke up and stumbled to the bathroom mirror, groggy from a lack of sleep. It’s never a good idea to look at yourself...

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