Country vs. Rural life

LIFE'S SECOND ACTS

a blog by Marilyn Woods

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...

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...

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, ...

It's 2022! Let's make it a good one!

Reading Between the Sheets

Changing the linens on my oversized, make that king-sized, bed occurs every week and I dread doing it. Occasionally, I stretch it to two...

The Perfect Man

It’s Valentine’s Day, my third without my husband of fifty plus romantic observances of cupid’s special day. I dodged several...

The Duplicity of Fire

I lit the first fire of the season in my fireplace last night, cozied up with a furry throw and began to write. Outside, temperatures in...