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...
Squeaky Shoes Part I

Squeaky Shoes Part I

By Wendy Hodge Have you ever spent any time in the emergency room in a small Southern town… on a weekend… during the COVID pandemic… with your head...

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Squeaky Shoes Part I

Korean Happy Birthday

By Wendy Hodge Today is Thursday. The plant where I work is busy, as always. My co-workers, local and Korean alike, are going about their day as...

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Hot Leather and High Fives

Hot Leather and High Fives

By Wendy Hodge If you read my last column, you know that I recently left my office job of several years. In fact, I walked away from the health care...

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Hot Leather and High Fives

Ode to the Lake Dog

By Wendy Hodge If there is one thing, one pure thing, on this earth that we humans do not deserve it is the presence of a dog in our lives. If...

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UNDER THE SURFACE

UNDER THE SURFACE

By Wendy Hodge The setting was perfect. Sun sparkling on the lake, white clouds hanging low and puffy in the bluest sky you can imagine, and not...

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UNDER THE SURFACE

‘Goodbye, Michael’

By Wendy Hodge There was an Office marathon last night on the Comedy Channel, as there often is. Insomnia was plaguing me again, and so I played a...

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Speak Softly and Smile

By Wendy Hodge Last night was one of those nights that happen every once in a while… the kind of night where you turn over a hundred times and...

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HATE

HATE

I don’t know about you, but I’m tired. As I sit here on a Thursday night, I’ve put down my phone and the TV is silent, but I can still hear all the...

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