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LIFE'S SECOND ACTS
a blog by Marilyn Woods
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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...

Marilyn Gardner Woods
Aug 24, 20205 min read


Around in circles...
I find myself going around in quarantine circles, screen to screen to screen.ad With dizzying regularity. Like a pirouetting ballerina,...

Marilyn Gardner Woods
Aug 12, 20207 min read


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...

Marilyn Gardner Woods
Aug 2, 20203 min read


Hugely talented!
Meet MB Hanrahan, a multi-talented artist who lives and creates in Ventura, California. According to the artist, who considers herself a...

Marilyn Gardner Woods
Jun 10, 20201 min read


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....

Marilyn Gardner Woods
Apr 30, 20202 min read


Our Drawing Salon Draws...
Drawing Salon—such an old-fashioned name for our small group of art lovers, united through our volunteer work at the art museum. Calls to...

Marilyn Gardner Woods
Mar 12, 20191 min read


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...

Marilyn Gardner Woods
Feb 14, 20192 min read


Books I Haven't Read
Without turning a page, without reading a word, there are books on my library’s shelves that speak volumes to me. My bookshelves, full of...

Marilyn Woods
Jan 21, 201910 min read
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