Richard Odell

Parallel Lives / Wayside Concerns
February 2026, Island Voices

Parallel Lives / Wayside Concerns

Tige and Daisy Leamer outside Leamer’s Shopping CenterCourtesy of Candace BrownPhotographer: Howard Willsie By Richard Odell Did I imagine Daisy’s? My father liked to circulate. He had me in tow, at age three or four, deep in the 1950s. I remember an interior scene where today is Minglement. The presence of several adults, their voices…

Island Voices, January 2026

Nothing Says “New” Like 1960

By Richard Odell I’ve always associated the 1940s with the color blue. Why, I don’t know. The 1930s I’ve seen always as dull green. Picture books, maybe, dated objects, impressed indelibly the child’s perception.  That I associate the 1950s with black and white seems obvious enough, for the greater world first came to this child’s…