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LIFE'S SECOND ACTS
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Apr 212 min read
Change of plans...
My late-in-life ballet career ended as abruptly as it began. Ballet lessons topped my 2024 New Year’s Resolution list. At the end of the...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Apr 51 min read
Across the Generations: Women’s Stories in Prose & Poetry
Come hear me read at this free event! Through the ages women have come together to tell their stories. Generation after generation, we’ve...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Apr 11 min read
Come see me at the San Diego Writers Festival
The festival is on Saturday April 6, 9am to 6pm. Come see my reading from Volume 5 of Shaking the Tree from 2:15-3:15pm. Readings from...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Mar 243 min read
The Games People Play...
I am a docent. At an art museum. The San Diego Museum of Art. Before you roll your eyes remembering that boring academic lecture in front...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Mar 151 min read
My reflections on the 2024 Academy Awards
Major League baseball players are not the only ones dealing with see-through outfits! I love a guy in a broach! Great add of the quintet...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Mar 71 min read
Act Quickly!
Just got word that the Kindle version of my first book is available free today, March 7. Usually talking about my new book - After Goya,...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Feb 293 min read
Not long after After Goya!
The purpose of this blog post is a giant mushy thank-you to all you hopeless romantics who believe in fairy tales and their power and...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Feb 112 min read
I love love.
"Let's fall in love. For if I loved you, time and again you would hear me say that I want to be loved by you, by you, and nobody else but...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Feb 61 min read
Am I too late?
Is it too late to become a ballerina? Each Friday morning at ten o’clock, I struggle to disprove popular opinion. The will is there—oh...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Jan 201 min read
It's official!
Please join us for a special ABCD Day Luncheon as we welcome guest speaker and published author, Marilyn Woods, to discuss her latest...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Jan 151 min read
Big week for me!
Just back from Dallas, where I grew up and where it was seventeen degrees all weekend. It's seventy degrees and sunshine this afternoon...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Jan 92 min read
Adjectives are words that describe the qualities or states of being of nouns: rapturous, reluctant, rowdy...sculptural, sexy, silly...head-splitting, hilarious, hallowed.
Both in my newly formed writing group and my touring at the art museum, I’m focusing on newer, stronger, adjectives in my...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Dec 30, 20233 min read
Sometimes it's hard to turn the page . . .
Erica Jong, celebrated novelist and essayist, was flying high in the late sixties and early seventies when I was chasing toddlers....
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Dec 27, 20231 min read
My true love(s) gave to me . . .
It was romantic. It was bittersweet. It was hectic. It was hilarious. It was heartwarming. It was exhausting. It was lonely. It was...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Dec 9, 20231 min read
Proud to be part of this group and this event!!!
9th Annual San Diego Memoir Showcase& Shaking the Tree Vol.5 Celebration December 14, 2023, 7:00 pmConrad Prebys Performing Arts Center...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Dec 1, 20232 min read
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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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Nov 28, 20232 min read
Dear Santa,
It's been decades since I wrote with a specific request. This year, it's imperative that I beg. I've been good. Santa, please, please...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Nov 24, 20231 min read
Survived another one!
NO I didn't bake the pies. Didn't snap the green beans. Did NOT tear the sourdough loaf into chunks for the stuffing. Certainly didn't...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Nov 8, 20231 min read
AGAIN!
I was certain when I handed the roasting pan to my daughter and turned over my father’s pearl-handled carving set to my son a dozen years...
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