My idea of ideal...
Over the years since I lost my loving husband, travel has provided immeasurable amounts of healing. To Marfa with Janice and Frank; to...
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LIFE'S SECOND ACTS
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Nov 51 min read
Grateful to be invited!
Thanksgiving is late this year which gives me time to talk books before talking turkey! Just back from an extraordinary trip to Andalucia...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Sep 56 min read
Home from another adventurous road trip!
Two-thousand miles in seven rollicking days. We are firm believers in St. Augustine ’s adage “The world is a book and those who don’t...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Jun 233 min read
A series of highs and lows...
I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
May 113 min read
Does anybody really need four and a half cups of brightly colored paper clips in their desk drawer?
Existential questions like this over an extended period of time led me to re-imagine my office recently. My corner office. Before you get...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
May 56 min read
Story Time y'all...
I think we writers are a most supportive group. Big time fans of one another's work! David Reed is a guy whose writing is beyond...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Oct 30, 20231 min read
Not your Mama's jeans...
Athleisurewear . . . Fit. Fit. Fit . . . Cargo pants. Crop Tops. Joggers . . . Tank Tops. T-shirts. Hoodies . . . Sports Bras....
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Sep 17, 20233 min read
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
Apr 18, 20233 min read
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
Mar 31, 20231 min read
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
Jan 25, 20232 min read
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
Oct 30, 20221 min read
Autumn on the Appalachian Trail...
This Texas girl turned Southern Californian experienced an Autumn to remember days ago on the Appalachian Trail in North Carolina. My...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Aug 28, 20224 min read
Lessons learned. A hard way...
Three minutes, at most. I pulled into the designated dry cleaners parking spot fifteen feet away from the establishment in the Trader...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Aug 19, 20224 min read
Perhaps the most magic time of day...
We were together at twilight time. As we strolled, holding hands after Cadillac margaritas and carne asada fajitas at our neighborhood...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Jul 29, 20221 min read
and the livin' is easy...
My friend Bess spoke wistfully the other day saying “I wish there were more days in July…” As the month ends and August approaches, that...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Jul 18, 20222 min read
Number Fifty-six...
One day recently, I spent more time in my kitchen than I have collectively over the last six years. It began around my birthday in May....
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Jun 21, 20223 min read
Longer days...more pages
Something kind of crazy happens to me when the lazy, hazy days of summer begin. I want to bury myself, not in the sand, but in a great...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Jun 7, 20224 min read
I'll have the regular...
David first introduced me to the plant based Beyond Burger four years ago. Having been a vegetarian for twenty years, I had gone...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
May 2, 20224 min read
A nine-day, one carry-on, five pounds added return to Texas. Yes, I ate the waffle...
“So what was the highlight of your Texas Trip this year,” my spirited longtime closest Texas friend asked as she edged her sleek black...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Mar 30, 20221 min read
I could of had a snazzy new pair of earrings...
How well I remember my father, a jovial long-legged athletic sort, pine away over his golf-game-bucket-list-item. Dad lusted after, not...
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