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...

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...

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...

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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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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