Marilyn Gardner Woods
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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LIFE'S SECOND ACTS
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Dec 20, 2022
- 4 min
Really last minute shopping...
The invitation for the dreaded gift exchange stated unisex and at the bottom in barely perceptible font size, up to $100 limit. Yes, I am...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Nov 16, 2022
- 3 min
A Wild Turkey happening...
When the front door of my daughter’s home in Valley Center opened, I froze. The sight of her face—a blackish-purple swollen...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Oct 17, 2022
- 3 min
HALLOWEEN IN THE LAND OF OZ
From the top shelf in the auto department of Ace Hardware, I pulled a shiny aluminum funnel, the kind for they use at Serrato’s Auto in...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Sep 8, 2022
- 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
- Oct 22, 2021
- 2 min
If you love the game of baseball...
The Twin Bill published today, the first day of the 2021 World Series. So many great baseball stories! Especially moving, the poignant...
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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
- Aug 8, 2021
- 4 min
Like the bay...
Her name is Chesapeake. Named for the Chesapeake Bay where her parents fell in love. She is the adorable red head, the fifth of my five...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Jun 15, 2021
- 3 min
Belated and beloved...
My birthday this year was a bit of blur nestled in the midst of Mother’s Day, three family birthday celebrations, one Master of Arts...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Dec 19, 2020
- 5 min
Be a child...
In the recently imposed stay-in-house restriction my region of California is under, I stumbled onto a work of art of mine from a long...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Nov 28, 2020
- 3 min
Thanksgiving leftover...
Easily the oddest Thanksgiving ever. The family unit carved up like a turkey. In Arizona, they put up their Christmas tree and had cereal...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Nov 22, 2020
- 6 min
My dining room. Inspired by Billy Collins, Poet Laureate.
It’s a small quaint room, my dining room, where meals are rarely eaten. The feast is on the wall, a gallery of art. A peony flower floats...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Oct 12, 2020
- 3 min
Halloween warning for DIYers...
Chesterton, Ohio in 1968. Mom came from Texas to visit just about this time of year. A beautiful autumn in the Midwest. My small tots...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Oct 4, 2020
- 5 min
October 2020
October 2020 is here—an October like none other in my lifetime. Octobers of my past flutter through my mind like falling leaves. I’ll...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Jul 21, 2020
- 3 min
Masked memories, murals, and merriment...
Here we are, all masked souls. At least a large majority of us. Or is the majority not so large? Whether you think masking is good or...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Jun 20, 2020
- 3 min
Flat Belly...
The long and winding road to flat belly… In reality the road is long, but not winding. In order for me to pare down the girth of my...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- May 5, 2020
- 2 min
HAPPY CINCO DE MAYO!
Twelve years ago, my granddaughter, Chesapeake Woods with hair the color of orange marmalade, was born and I bought a book for her, 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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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- May 26, 2019
- 2 min
More Maddie...
Four years after her emerald search came up fruitless, Maddie eight at this time, sat with her siblings and cousins and their parents-my...
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