Marilyn Gardner Woods
Beavers, balloons, or bicycles - do it now!
"There are a lot of words meaning thanks. Some you can only whisper. Others you can only sing. The pewee whistles instead. The snake...
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LIFE'S SECOND ACTS
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Nov 10, 2021
- 7 min
"I'm fixin' to get into some trouble. You comin'?
I know they consider me a foreigner… And maybe I am. In a way, they are too. Those Texas girls. I return to my stomping grounds there...
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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
- 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
- Sep 27, 2021
- 6 min
Moments apart. Footsteps away.
Crossing the First Street Bridge one sunshine-filled day recently, I glanced west. The view of Point Loma and the sparkling waters of the...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Sep 11, 2021
- 4 min
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
- Sep 1, 2021
- 3 min
Do you know of the Ember Months?
“…the days grow short when you reach September” September ushers in the Ember Months. I don’t remember when I first heard the phrase, a...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Aug 18, 2021
- 4 min
Library card...
I am in three books clubs now. I do not have a library card. Chesapeake, granddaughter number five, suggested a joint book club where she...
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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
- Jul 26, 2021
- 6 min
The Art of Bonsai
The burly hunk of a man, a thatch of coarse flaxen hair sticking out from under his straw hat on the right side, concluded his...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Jul 18, 2021
- 4 min
The Anniversary Sale
A case of the dressing room giggles which sometimes turned into guffaws may have been the most fun I’ve had in a couple of years… What is...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Jul 5, 2021
- 1 min
In the garden
A quiet morning in the garden Quiet, save for an occasional chirp or plane's low hum The weathered gate closed The wind gentle The iron...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Jun 26, 2021
- 4 min
What's in your tool box?
In the year 2000, the International Ergonomics Association Executive Council identified three main characteristics known as Ergonomic...
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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
- Jun 4, 2021
- 3 min
Back to The Phantom, the catcher behind homeplate and Halloween costumes...
Our mask-nation is gradually unveiling itself. An awkwardness permeates as we cope with “to wear or not to wear.” For some, masks dangle...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- May 22, 2021
- 2 min
"The lusty month of May..."
A new year begins for me each May. And the Matilija Poppies bloom. My life began in May just about forever ago. While many around me mope...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- May 14, 2021
- 2 min
Modern Day Master
The need to convey the power of art returned to me a few days ago when I returned to what had been my home away from home for twenty...
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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
- Apr 20, 2021
- 3 min
Anybody else confused?
Remember how easy it used to be to show up at the neighborhood theater, buy a ticket, get your popcorn and red hots and settle in? Not so...
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