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Wendy Hodge Articles

Top Hat Tackles Food Insecurity

CONTRIBUTED BY WENDY HODGE OPELIKA —“There are people in the world so hungry that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.” - Mahatma GandhiOpelika and Auburn are blessed. We have restaurants, cafes, delis, bakeries, bistros, coffee shops, mega grocery...
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The Turkey Is Dead, and Santa Is Too Skinny

By WENDY HODGE My grandmother’s coffee table was a polished walnut, smooth to the touch. It was an antique even then, 50 years ago. And on it sat the inevitable coffee table book. Hers was a collection of Norman Rockwell paintings. From time to time, I would enter...
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Oh Christmas Tree!

By WENDY HODGE Forget the midterm elections and the political campaigns. The real question, the one that is truly on everyone’s mind (whether they admit it or not), is this: “When is it too early/late enough to put up my Christmas tree?” Typically, the people asking...
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Marigold and Cadillac

Times are tough. There’s no denying it. Suffering isn’t hard to find, and if you dwell on it for more than a minute or two it can be hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel. But I have come to lean on these words more and more lately:  “Although the world...
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Mind The Gap

Mind The Gap

Dec 1, 2021

By WENDY HODGE 1985 was a good year. Nintendo released its home entertainment system; we all were singing along with Phil Collins because he was...

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HELPER

Nov 24, 2021

By WENDY HODGE Everybody loves Mr. Rogers. If I’m honest, I love him more now as an adult than I did as a child. I preferred the higher-volumed...

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Boys and Girls

Nov 17, 2021

By WENDY HODGE My dad used a term as far back as I can remember ... "passive soldier.” The way he said it sounded like a curse word to my young...

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I’m Too Old

Nov 10, 2021

By WENDY HODGE Author’s Note: I wrote the following article four years ago. My life has changed a lot since then – I’ve had more birthdays, I have a...

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God Help America

Nov 3, 2021

By WENDY HODGE There is a bend in the Tallapoosa River that leaves the image of a horseshoe on my map of east-central Alabama. In that river bend is...

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ON PURPOSE

Oct 27, 2021

By WENDY HODGE Have you ever noticed that, when a song or an idea or even a word catches your attention you begin to see it everywhere? There’s a...

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I FORGOT

Oct 20, 2021

By WENDY HODGE Sunday morning is one of my favorite times of the week. My best friend and I have a delicious routine — we are up before the sun, we...

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LAW AND ORDER

Oct 13, 2021

By WENDY HODGE It is Tuesday night, and my mother and I are watching reruns of Law and Order. I say we’re watching, but I’m the one watching. My...

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FAN

Oct 6, 2021

By WENDY HODGE Once upon a time, a young man from the Carolinas moved to Auburn and attended The Alabama Polytechnic Institute. He spotted a girl...

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