LIFE'S SECOND ACTS
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Jan 21
- 4 min
#1m, #46
At the exact moment Joseph R. Biden Jr. was pronounced president of the United States, an ample and jolly forty-something health care wor...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Dec 19, 2020
- 5 min
Be a child...
In the recently imposed stay-in-house restriction my region of California is under, I stumbled onto a work of art of mine from a long tim...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Dec 18, 2020
- 1 min
An early morning surprise...
Half way through my first cup of coffee, a text from my daughter. "Mom, how come you didn't tell us?" Weeks ago, a charming and gifted wr...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Dec 11, 2020
- 2 min
Only in my dreams...
Just after Thanksgiving, a surreal sans-turkey seasonal affair, I began to play my collection of Christmas music, feeling the need for th...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Nov 28, 2020
- 3 min
Thanksgiving leftover...
Easily the oddest Thanksgiving ever. The family unit carved up like a turkey. In Arizona, they put up their Christmas tree and had cereal...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Nov 26, 2020
- 1 min
Inspired by art...
Another writing effort put out there in the pandemic... Each year, San Diego Writers Ink publishes an anthology of curated works. A selec...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Nov 16, 2020
- 3 min
A last moment with a master...
I have spent twenty years talking about extraordinary works of art at The San Diego Museum of Art. The last time was eight months ago on ...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Nov 9, 2020
- 3 min
A rocky start to November.
Less than a day after writing this, I awakened to the announcement that Joe Biden is the forty-sixth president of the United States. With...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Oct 30, 2020
- 1 min
Please come.
This brilliant and delightful person has been my writing buddy, since we both began to write seriously just over five years ago. My frien...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Oct 22, 2020
- 5 min
In the end, it felt good...
Anguish mounted. “I have moved those damn tables into every room in this house and they don’t belong anywhere. I need to get rid of them,...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Oct 12, 2020
- 3 min
Halloween warning for DIYers...
Chesterton, Ohio in 1968. Mom came from Texas to visit just about this time of year. A beautiful autumn in the Midwest. My small tots wer...
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