Neal Wooten

Neal Wooten grew up on a pig farm on Sand Mountain in the northeast corner of Alabama before being dragged kicking and screaming to the snow-infested plains of the American Midwest. After living in other parts of the country for 35 years, he's now back in northeast Alabama. He is the Managing Editor for Mirror Publishing, a contributor to the Huffington Post, columnist for The Mountain Valley News, curator of the Fort Payne Depot Museum, creator of the popular FB comic strip “Brad’s Pit,” artist, and standup comedian.

Everyone Has a Story to Tell

By Neal Wooten

September 5, 2022

All my childhood memories of my mother, when she actually had time to sit and rest, are of her reading romance novels. She went through several every week, and still does to this day. I tried reading one when I was twelve. It embarrassed me so much, I haven’t read one since. When I got…