Marilyn Gardner WoodsOct 22, 20212 minIf 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...
Marilyn Gardner WoodsOct 9, 20213 minGreen 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?”...
Marilyn Gardner WoodsAug 8, 20214 minLike 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...
Marilyn Gardner WoodsJun 15, 20213 minBelated 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...
Marilyn Gardner WoodsDec 19, 20205 minBe 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...
Marilyn Gardner WoodsNov 28, 20203 minThanksgiving 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...
Marilyn Gardner WoodsNov 23, 20206 minMy 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...
Marilyn Gardner WoodsOct 12, 20203 minHalloween 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...
Marilyn Gardner WoodsOct 4, 20205 minOctober 2020October 2020 is here—an October like none other in my lifetime. Octobers of my past flutter through my mind like falling leaves. I’ll...
Marilyn Gardner WoodsJul 22, 20203 minMasked 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...
Marilyn Gardner WoodsJun 20, 20203 minFlat 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...
Marilyn Gardner WoodsMay 5, 20202 minHAPPY 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...
Marilyn Gardner WoodsApr 30, 20202 minMy 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 WoodsMay 26, 20192 minMore 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...