Marilyn Gardner Woods
A*U*T*U*M*N arrives...
Bookended by Labor Day and the holiday season, Autumn is here. The Turning of the season, although we scarcely notice in Southern...
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LIFE'S SECOND ACTS
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Sep 8
- 2 min
Let 'em eat fish...
I have been called a persnickety eater. Certainly, I'm an unadventurous diner. Not likely to dive into unfamiliar dishes. Especially...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Jun 29
- 2 min
Yep, art imitates life...
Who doesn’t love the Impressionists? Those light-filled, loosely brush-worked, fleeting-moments kind of rock star artists who together...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- May 13
- 6 min
You Take my Breath Away...
The stirring, captivating, and extraordinary music of Eva Cassidy floats through the air in my home as I write. I have listened to her...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Mar 2
- 2 min
Forever and a pandemic ago...
Can it be possible that the seemingly endless scourge that has gripped our lives for more than two years is finally surrendering to...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Feb 7
- 2 min
Valentine's Day Whimsy from artist, Beatrice Wood
One of my favorite works of art in The San Diego Museum of Art is a brilliantly hued turquoise green plate with an eye-catching...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Dec 23, 2021
- 1 min
Share your gifts...
I lost a close friend this holiday season. Unexpected. Unthinkable. Devastating. Another dear friend left some time ago, moving to Maine....
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Oct 8, 2021
- 3 min
Green ice cream
“Green.” My toddler, wearing pint-sized Tony Llama cowboy boots, uttered this one-word reply to “What kind of ice cream would you like?”...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- May 22, 2021
- 2 min
"The lusty month of May..."
A new year begins for me each May. And the Matilija Poppies bloom. My life began in May just about forever ago. While many around me mope...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- May 14, 2021
- 2 min
Modern Day Master
The need to convey the power of art returned to me a few days ago when I returned to what had been my home away from home for twenty...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Mar 20, 2021
- 2 min
Celebrate Women's History Month with Art!
Update: The virtual tour was fabulous, made even more special by the appearance of both Anne Mudge and Marianela de la Hoz. Both artists...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Feb 22, 2021
- 2 min
Join us! "Built by Women" Virtual Tour at the San Diego Museum of Art (March 6)
You are invited to the premiere of The San Diego Museum of Art’s “Built by Women” virtual tour. Channel your inner Rosie the Riveter and...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Feb 13, 2021
- 2 min
For my story-telling loving friends...
"Sweet and Sour" Yep, that's what I wrote about. The submission instructions - unpublished fiction or nonfiction narratives based loosely...
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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...
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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
- Aug 24, 2020
- 5 min
Reading and writing...no 'rithmetic.
I devoured my book club’s recent selection, So Long, See You Tomorrow, an artistic novella which was described several years ago as “one...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Aug 12, 2020
- 7 min
Around in circles...
I find myself going around in quarantine circles, screen to screen to screen.ad With dizzying regularity. Like a pirouetting ballerina,...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Aug 2, 2020
- 3 min
I did go to Longfellow Elementary...
and as the creepy boys in sixth grade loved to chant, "She's not a poet, but her feet show it-they're longfellows." Was that bullying? I...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Jun 10, 2020
- 1 min
Hugely talented!
Meet MB Hanrahan, a multi-talented artist who lives and creates in Ventura, California. According to the artist, who considers herself a...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Apr 30, 2020
- 2 min
My most favorite mask...
With masks front and center for us all, the one on my bedpost, my Mojiganga Mask from San Miguel de Allende, makes me so darned happy....
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