Marilyn Gardner Woods
D-Day minus ten
Hummmmm. Brrrrrrrrrrrrr. A medium-pitched hum without variation in tone buzzes throughout the complex. The home and park-like setting...
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LIFE'S SECOND ACTS
a blog by Marilyn Woods
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Sep 17
- 3 min
I love my neighborhood...
It’s fascinating how one person’s seemingly innocent gesture can affect another person in unknown and unexpected ways. There’s a house on...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Aug 27
- 4 min
"I already have one!"
As I wrapped Laurie’s birthday present—a stack pack of books—I couldn’t help but smile recalling something funny my favorite uncle said...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Aug 1
- 2 min
She's Everywhere!
Random Thoughts I had while watching Barbie… · Dazzling summer fun! · Barbie sales will spike - both plastic dolls and movie...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Jul 24
- 2 min
I could have seen Barbie...
Random thoughts I had during the summer’s three-hour action spectacle—Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One. 1. Longest car...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Jul 15
- 4 min
No need for rose-colored glasses...
I’ve been gone from Ventura County for almost thirty years but will never forget Ojai’s legendary Pink Moments there. The Shangri-La-ish...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Jun 27
- 3 min
Marco Polo right on the money...
When I die, I hope it’s peony season and my children place full lush blossoms everywhere when they celebrate. Not that I’ve died, but the...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Jun 12
- 5 min
Rise. Bloom. Fade
Over the years—make that decades—I have been a character in many plays. Teacher. Administrator. Trainer. Interesting fields like art and...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- May 17
- 3 min
Game Days...
Just as 2023 began, I added the New York Times “Spelling Bee,” to my morning routine. It’s a puzzle in which players try to make words...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- May 1
- 2 min
Coming soon...
I’ve got Georgia on my mind. O’Keeffe, that is. A new exhibition opens in days at The San Diego Museum of Art featuring the iconic artist...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Apr 18
- 3 min
Traces of Texas y'all...
The older I get the more important it is for me to go home. Home to Texas home where my youth played out. Where my girl hood launched....
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Apr 10
- 2 min
It's orange blossom time again...
Once up a time, I wrote a book. The inspiration for my first book was a poem—“Invitation to a Voyage”—by Charles Baudelaire, one of the...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Mar 31
- 1 min
The mighty Kumquat's season is here!
Harvest time. Not fruits of my bygone Camelot, Lush wine grapes Juicy oranges. Instead, the modest kumquat Is sought From my hillside...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Mar 20
- 2 min
No "Sunshine on my Shoulders"...
Vincent Van Gogh, who experienced many tumultuous seasons as he created his radically idiosyncratic, emotionally evocative art,...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Mar 1
- 3 min
Books I’m reading even though my eyesight is temporarily cockeyed.
Six months between cataract surgeries (don’t ask) and I wear a contact on one eye during the day and read at night without the contact...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Feb 5
- 3 min
"WHAT'S GALENTINE'S DAY? OH, IT'S ONLY THE BEST DAY OF THE YEAR."
Never paid much attention to Galentine’s Day, although I adored Amy Poehler’s Leslie Knope character on Parks and Recreation. Galentine’s...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Jan 25
- 2 min
Random reflection on a recent very cool road trip!
After multiple crunch time plane excursions, the idea of getting in an automobile and traveling north from San Diego had great appeal....
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Jan 19
- 1 min
Tune in to my Zoom Reading Hosted by Wild Roof Journal
Join me for this virtual reading hosted by Wild Roof Journal. I'll be reading along with other contributors to Issue 18. The reading will...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Jan 11
- 2 min
Is it just me or...
Indulging in one final guilty pleasure before beginning the trials of New-Year’s-Resolutions-eating, I opened the small brown bag...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Dec 20, 2022
- 4 min
Really last minute shopping...
The invitation for the dreaded gift exchange stated unisex and at the bottom in barely perceptible font size, up to $100 limit. Yes, I am...
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