Marilyn Gardner Woods
For your shopping list...
For those of you who love to read and might also need gifts for friends who like to read, hang on because I’ve got great suggestions! I...
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LIFE'S SECOND ACTS
a blog by Marilyn Woods
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Oct 1
- 3 min
"...the last act of secular prayer"
Sophie, the bride-to-be and avid reader, has no time for books lately – she’s getting married next Saturday. We’re all in a tizzy!...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Aug 27
- 4 min
"I already have one!"
As I wrapped Laurie’s birthday present—a stack pack of books—I couldn’t help but smile recalling something funny my favorite uncle said...
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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
- Mar 1
- 3 min
Books I’m reading even though my eyesight is temporarily cockeyed.
Six months between cataract surgeries (don’t ask) and I wear a contact on one eye during the day and read at night without the contact...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Feb 5
- 3 min
"WHAT'S GALENTINE'S DAY? OH, IT'S ONLY THE BEST DAY OF THE YEAR."
Never paid much attention to Galentine’s Day, although I adored Amy Poehler’s Leslie Knope character on Parks and Recreation. Galentine’s...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Oct 9, 2022
- 3 min
On first impression...
Connie and I sat next to each other, both with coffee in hand, just before the workshop on writing articles for magazines started at ten...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Jun 29, 2022
- 2 min
Yep, art imitates life...
Who doesn’t love the Impressionists? Those light-filled, loosely brush-worked, fleeting-moments kind of rock star artists who together...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Oct 5, 2021
- 1 min
Join me! Learn from Local Authors Memoir Panel on November 6
Join me at the San Diego Memoir Writers Association where I'll be talking with a dynamic panel of local authors to discuss our process -...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- May 2, 2021
- 1 min
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
- Feb 13, 2021
- 2 min
For my story-telling loving friends...
"Sweet and Sour" Yep, that's what I wrote about. The submission instructions - unpublished fiction or nonfiction narratives based loosely...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Jan 20, 2021
- 4 min
#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
- Dec 18, 2020
- 1 min
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 26, 2020
- 1 min
Inspired by art...
Another writing effort put out there in the pandemic... Each year, San Diego Writers Ink publishes an anthology of curated works. A...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Sep 13, 2020
- 2 min
“Without it, life is just ‘doing time.' ”
I love this powerful statement about love from an essay by Ottessa Moshfegh. So yeah, love - what is it? Does it start in the mind or the...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Aug 31, 2020
- 2 min
It hardly happened...
End of August. How unjust. September looms. Summer’s doom. Out, out damn Dahlias, lavender wands, lemonade with mint. Au Revoir my floppy...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Aug 30, 2020
- 2 min
Summer of orange
Summer of orange Valencias outside my window Fruit of inspiration Fragrance swirling in the air My book in blossom Everything orange 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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