Marilyn Gardner Woods
She's Everywhere!
Random Thoughts I had while watching Barbie… · Dazzling summer fun! · Barbie sales will spike - both plastic dolls and movie...
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LIFE'S SECOND ACTS
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Jul 24
- 2 min
I could have seen Barbie...
Random thoughts I had during the summer’s three-hour action spectacle—Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One. 1. Longest car...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Jul 15
- 4 min
No need for rose-colored glasses...
I’ve been gone from Ventura County for almost thirty years but will never forget Ojai’s legendary Pink Moments there. The Shangri-La-ish...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- May 17
- 3 min
Game Days...
Just as 2023 began, I added the New York Times “Spelling Bee,” to my morning routine. It’s a puzzle in which players try to make words...
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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 7, 2022
- 2 min
Fifty thoughts I had while watching Elvis, the movie...
1. My father freaked out when he heard "All Shook Up" and saw the gyrations 2. So did I... 3. Couldn’t quite keep up with Baz...
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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
- Mar 2, 2022
- 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
- Sep 11, 2021
- 4 min
In the spotlight...
On my radar…an architect, an actress and an unbelievably awesome vocalist – all women! First, one of British drama’s royalty, Nicola...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Apr 20, 2021
- 3 min
Anybody else confused?
Remember how easy it used to be to show up at the neighborhood theater, buy a ticket, get your popcorn and red hots and settle in? Not so...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Jan 19, 2021
- 3 min
Film Festival at my house!
In an effort to calm my nerves in anticipation of a vaccine appointment, I staged a mini-Film Festival at my house over the last few days...
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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 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
- Jul 12, 2020
- 2 min
Oranges and books, two of my favorite things...
“Many kinds of fruit grow upon the tree of life, but none as sweet as friends; as with the orange tree its blossoms and fruit appear at...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Jun 28, 2020
- 3 min
Who doesn't love a love story?
I wrote that question two years ago about this time when we were mired in the pandemic and strangely unsettled about the future. The...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- May 24, 2020
- 3 min
Suggestions for an un-lumpy life...
It’s midway through the third month of shelter-in-place and strangely, this surreal stage play has become normal. And just as that has...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- May 17, 2020
- 1 min
Intoxicating...
“Did you ever sleep in a field of orange-trees in bloom? The air which one inhales deliciously is a quintessence of perfumes. This...
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