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Wendy Hodge Articles

Sequel

By WENDY HODGE Last weekend, Tim and I went to the movies. “Top Gun — Maverick” was playing on the Big D at the Tiger Town 13, and we had tickets for our date night. We don’t go to the movies very often because we enjoy the theater we have created at home, with shows...
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What A Prince Looks Like

By WENDY HODGE  dreamed the other night that my daughter was a little girl again. In my dream, she sat in front of the TV in the house she grew up in and, on the TV in front her, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast played on the screen. The original animated version …...
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Redneck Wanderlust

By WENDY HODGE This time of year, social media is full of vacation pictures … selfies in front of historic landmarks, family group shots at amusement park entrances and ocean views from beach chairs. And I am feeling that familiar pull to travel, to explore, to GO! I...
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To Hear A Voice

By WENDY HODGE Margaret lives in London. She walks a few blocks every day … every single day … just to hear a voice. She walks to the subway station in her neighborhood and perches on the edge of a bench on the platform waiting for her husband’s words to fill the air....
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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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