As far back as I can remember, there was Ted. Soft southern accent, gentle spirit, always making people laugh. Sometimes raising hell, back in the early days. And always helping out our family. He had his own gig, too…something to…
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“Ordinary Soil brings to haunting life the desperate realities of the American heartland but also offers a glimpse into a better future… a call to action for all of us.”
WOODY HARRELSON
A terrorized, addicted farmer’s suicide attempt under a rotting burial elm unearths his family’s dark history, exposing diseased generational roots of abuse and abandonment. But strength, light, and hope also wait, deep in the ordinary soil of the Oklahoma panhandle.
I’m a writer.
Of books and songs.
I’m a singer.
Of my truth and maybe yours.
I’m a rider.
Of horses and waves.
I live with four horses, two dogs, two chickens, and two beautiful humans on a small ranch near the California coast.
Thanks for being here.
“Alex Woodard is one of the greatest writers I’ve ever discovered.”
DR. WAYNE DYER
RENOWNED MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER
AND #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR
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The morning after, he woke to pale pink streaks slashing across the gray-blue dawn. He started the coffee maker, tugged on a jacket and shuffled outside to feed the chickens and the horses, then back inside to feed the dogs.…
Wilderness
I saw him this afternoon just outside of Stevensville, Montana. Young, baseball hat, goatee. His big black truck, with a big black dog’s big black ears flopping out the back window, had just pulled out of a parking lot and…
The Weatherman
I almost didn’t go. The weatherman had called for strong winds out of the south and a potential small craft advisory, which meant the ocean was going to be a sloppy mess. Surfing was going to suck. But I went…
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“Throughout ‘Living Halfway,’ Alex writes the same way he sings: not always pretty, and his words can tear your heart out of your body. But I forgive him for that, because what he writes is beautiful, and real, and true.”
ROBERT HOLDEN,PHD
Happiness Expert And Author Of “Shift Happens! And Finding Love Everywhere”