woody's world

The lush vine twines upward on the fence and as it goes produces large flower buds. These sit there, green and still, waiting for darkness ...

“Diana Nyad, 60, Swimming From Cuba To Florida” the headline reads. Diana is a renowned distance swimmer, writer and commentator on NPR. She...

Last year I wrote a small essay about a man named Clarence, and the impact he had on my view of racism. An old friend just experienced some...

Casting around for a different kind of dinner to construct when “Steak Diane” popped into the old bean. There was a restaurant in Tallahass...

This morning we woke up to a real treat. Several years ago we bought a white night-blooming water lily. It bloomed the first year, and maybe...

This morning I look in the usual places for hints of good news and not surprisingly found some. Note this headline form the Melbourne (Aust...

Ann Rice dumps the Catholic church because she “discovered” that it is homophobic and trying to influence “secular” policy. What a gigantic...

I was listening to the original cast album of Hair the other day and when the song “Air” played I thought “Hmm. not much has changed has it...

So, I’m walking down the olive oil isle at Harvey’s and my cell phone rings. I answer and before I can say anything beside “hello” I hear “...

What albums would you want if you were marooned in space? No, not a dumb FB game. The top picks for me are “Deep Breakfast” by Ray Lynch an...