Wanted: a Hero

Wanted: a Hero Niles Reddick   When Andrea Thomas (played by Joanna Cameron) dug up the Tutmose amulet in the Egyptian desert and put it on, she had supernatural powers of Isis. The 1970s television series filled us with excitement and imagination. The sound of the acronym ISIS now conjures scenes of misguided humans wreaking havoc on a postmodern world that’s no better than its past. Whether victims in Paris,…

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You Never Know

You Never Know Niles Reddick   Earlier today, I did a photo shoot with Rhonda and Greg from the UofM for an article about the publication of my upcoming novel. In preparing for the shoot, I was walking back from my vehicle with two blazers, ties, an extra shirt in case they needed me to change clothes for the shoot when an employee said, “You think you might need a…

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My Motlow Circle

My Motlow Circle for Greer Niles Reddick   For thirteen years, I worked with some wonderful people at Motlow College in Lynchburg TN (and McMinnville, Fayetteville and Smyrna). I remember going there as a young faculty member in my twenties and making 25k my first year, but it was a full time teaching job instead of my part time gigs. Oh, I made some mistakes through the years, like spending…

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Hunger

Hunger Niles Reddick                   “Dad, I’m hungry,” my son said on his way to the pantry. I was reviewing the guide on the television to find something to take my mind away from all the bad news in the world. Before I could tell him we just had dinner an hour ago, and he didn’t need it, he was half-way into a pop tart, a peanut butter one sprayed…

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Meeting Coach Bowden

Meeting Coach Bowden Niles Reddick                   Yes, I went to Florida State for graduate school, but while I was spending endless nights pouring through library resources, the same library where students were shot years later by a random nut with an egocentric cause, co-eds were drinking, whooping it up, and chopping air and chanting at Doak Campbell stadium for our Seminoles.  Charlie Ward was quarterback, Warrick Dunn was a…

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