by Justin Cox | Jul 19, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
If you’re a sadist and enjoy seeing someone squirm with discomfort, I invite you to watch me suffer through a business meeting. In such a setting, one discovers I take on the desperate actions of a fish snatched out of the sea. Flailing around, eyes bulging with...
by Justin Cox | Mar 31, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
I’ve constantly struggled throughout my life at having to do something a particular way because folks told me there was only one way I could do it. Since middle school, I’ve dug in my heels on plenty of hills of resistance, starting with any math teacher who...
by Justin Cox | Jan 30, 2023 | Opinion
I’m a creature of habit. I like to tell people it’s my children who spiral if their nighttime routines get out of whack, but really, it’s me. I’m the one who comes a bit unglued without a rinse, lather, repeat structured order. A recent evening culminated...
by Justin Cox | Dec 29, 2022 | Opinion
My great-grandmother Grandmaw Martin used to say, “Nothing good happens after midnight.” As a young man, I lived the opposite of her statement. In the witching hours, I experienced some of my most pleasurable, fool-induced joys and a series of brushes with...
by Justin Cox | Sep 7, 2022 | Opinion
Sitting in the new library at home, a tidy but disorganized space containing bookshelves and a smattering of unopened moving boxes, I glance out the window and catch a glimpse of the night sky. The trees cover much of my view, yet I can still make out the different...
