Marilyn Gardner Woods
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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LIFE'S SECOND ACTS
a blog by Marilyn Woods
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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
- 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
- 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
- Oct 30, 2022
- 1 min
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, 2022
- 4 min
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, 2022
- 4 min
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, 2022
- 1 min
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, 2022
- 2 min
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, 2022
- 3 min
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, 2022
- 4 min
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, 2022
- 4 min
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, 2022
- 1 min
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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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Mar 15, 2022
- 3 min
Olive overdose...
Via Zoom, Jan, my good Duplicate-bridge-playing-friend, said, “Can we take a break? I want a V-8.” We did. When we resumed, I heard the...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Feb 24, 2022
- 3 min
"Possibilities of a new season..."
Just as the urge to gather pinecones and sip hot chocolate comes over me each autumn, an overwhelming compulsion to get my hands dirty...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Jan 20, 2022
- 5 min
Scissors, screwdrivers, and sex
Geez. I still smell like I spent the night with an unwashed mechanic…oily and garage-like. Stridently attacking my Five Lists 2022, ...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Dec 17, 2021
- 2 min
Oh Christmas tree...
Way back before the twenty-first century began, in 1999, there was an extraordinary garden store in Santa Barbara, Smith & Hawken, where...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Dec 2, 2021
- 3 min
Is it only me?
Lost in translation in a QR Code nation. Weird sensation Increasing presence in my everyday life of a two-dimensional square made up of...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Sep 27, 2021
- 6 min
Moments apart. Footsteps away.
Crossing the First Street Bridge one sunshine-filled day recently, I glanced west. The view of Point Loma and the sparkling waters of the...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Sep 1, 2021
- 3 min
Do you know of the Ember Months?
“…the days grow short when you reach September” September ushers in the Ember Months. I don’t remember when I first heard the phrase, a...
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