At last!
At last. A bona fide perk of old age. At least for us elders in California. Scarcely able to believe what I was seeing in the San Diego...
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LIFE'S SECOND ACTS
a blog by Marilyn Woods
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Aug 62 min read
July harvest 2024
In my small circle, July brought forth three baby boys and one very large cucumber. I had nothing to do with birthing the young boys; I...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Jul 82 min read
Sky High on that roller coaster again . . .
"except for the Presidential s**t show..."
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
May 113 min read
Does anybody really need four and a half cups of brightly colored paper clips in their desk drawer?
Existential questions like this over an extended period of time led me to re-imagine my office recently. My corner office. Before you get...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Sep 17, 20233 min read
I love my neighborhood...
It’s fascinating how one person’s seemingly innocent gesture can affect another person in unknown and unexpected ways. There’s a house on...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Aug 19, 20224 min read
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
Jun 18, 20222 min read
Still a bright light...
Today, I spent the morning cleaning and polishing my dining room chandelier. It’s industrial design featuring ninety-six crystalline...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
May 13, 20226 min read
You Take my Breath Away...
The stirring, captivating, and extraordinary music of Eva Cassidy floats through the air in my home as I write. I have listened to her...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Mar 15, 20223 min read
Olive overdose...
Via Zoom, Jan, my good Duplicate-bridge-playing-friend, said, “Can we take a break? I want a V-8.” We did. When we resumed, I heard the...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Jan 10, 20224 min read
Welcome to 2022 ya'll!
I am an incurable list maker—never more in my sweet spot than at the beginning of the New Year when it’s time to write resolutions....
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Dec 17, 20212 min read
Oh Christmas tree...
Way back before the twenty-first century began, in 1999, there was an extraordinary garden store in Santa Barbara, Smith & Hawken, where...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Dec 2, 20213 min read
Is it only me?
Lost in translation in a QR Code nation. Weird sensation Increasing presence in my everyday life of a two-dimensional square made up of...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Sep 11, 20214 min read
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
May 2, 20211 min read
Once upon a time...
There is a strong possibility it will never come to life. I have big-time doubts. It has completed the embryonic stages. And is out of my...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Mar 28, 20213 min read
TGIF
The moment my foot hit the flagstone path leading from my front door, I felt a vibration; with each step, a pulsing sensation coming from...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Jan 20, 20214 min read
#1m, #46
At the exact moment Joseph R. Biden Jr. was pronounced president of the United States, an ample and jolly forty-something health care...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Jan 19, 20213 min read
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
Dec 18, 20201 min read
An early morning surprise...
Half way through my first cup of coffee, a text from my daughter. "Mom, how come you didn't tell us?" Weeks ago, a charming and gifted...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Nov 9, 20203 min read
A rocky start to November.
Less than a day after writing this, I awakened to the announcement that Joe Biden is the forty-sixth president of the United States....
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Oct 22, 20205 min read
In the end, it felt good...
Anguish mounted. “I have moved those damn tables into every room in this house and they don’t belong anywhere. I need to get rid of...
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