Wendy Hodge Articles

Won’t You Be My Neighbor

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 light above the stove, I heard a mournful cry. Drifting on the wind that had brought in yet another rainstorm, came the...

Undeserved Kindness

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 never met the guy in line behind me at the ATM. This guy is in a hurry — the kind of hurry where good manners go out the...

Unsolved Mysteries

By WENDY HODGE Technology has opened the universe ... we have robotic surgery and driverless vehicles, digital money and quantum computing. We can program everything in our homes from a thousand miles away with a tap of an icon on our cell phones. We have 3-D printing...

Tell Me Something Good

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, there is a segment on the Bobby Bones morning radio show that makes me smile. And that’s saying a lot on a rainy Monday...
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WHAT I SAID

By WENDY HODGE “By my next birthday, I will be a certified chimney sweep.” I can honestly say that’s not a sentence I ever thought I would utter....

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The Death Of The Abide

By WENDY HODGE My very first apartment, when I was a freshman in college, was sparsely decorated in what my roommate and I referred to as “up-scaled...

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I Still Remember

By WENDY HODGE The other night, I dreamed of my friend, Denise. She was a funny, comfortable kind of friend who encouraged me and kept me laughing....

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By the Sea – Part II

By WENDY HODGE Today was day five of our beach trip, and like every other day here the weather has been just perfect. For today’s activities, the...

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By the Sea

By WENDY HODGE It’s that time of year again - the season of bathing suits, bare feet and beaches. It is summer, and this week I am so grateful to...

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Oh, the Places I’ve Been

By WENDY HODGE The first book I ever remember checking out of the city library was a children’s book of travel stories. It was a large book with a...

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SUMMER CAMP PART III

By WENDY HODGE With day one (and a flip-flop frog murder) behind me, days two through five unrolled at much the same pace at Wiregrass Christian...

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Summer Camp Part II

By WENDY HODGE When last we met, I was a 10-year-old Cherokee camper at Wiregrass Christian Youth Camp in Coffee County, Alabama, and the heat was a...

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