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LIFE'S SECOND ACTS
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Oct 5, 20234 min read
One Day and counting...
I first wrote the piece below sixteen months ago just after Sophie, my third granddaughter, and Daniel, her tall, dark, and handsome...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Oct 1, 20233 min read
"...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
Sep 26, 20231 min read
D-Day minus ten
Hummmmm. Brrrrrrrrrrrrr. A medium-pitched hum without variation in tone buzzes throughout the complex. The home and park-like setting...
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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 27, 20234 min read
"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
Aug 1, 20232 min read
She's Everywhere!
Random Thoughts I had while watching Barbie… · Dazzling summer fun! · Barbie sales will spike - both plastic dolls and movie...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Jul 24, 20232 min read
I could have seen Barbie...
Random thoughts I had during the summer’s three-hour action spectacle—Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One. 1. Longest car...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Jul 15, 20234 min read
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
Jun 27, 20233 min read
Marco Polo right on the money...
When I die, I hope it’s peony season and my children place full lush blossoms everywhere when they celebrate. Not that I’ve died, but the...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Jun 12, 20235 min read
Rise. Bloom. Fade
Over the years—make that decades—I have been a character in many plays. Teacher. Administrator. Trainer. Interesting fields like art and...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
May 17, 20233 min read
Game Days...
Just as 2023 began, I added the New York Times “Spelling Bee,” to my morning routine. It’s a puzzle in which players try to make words...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
May 1, 20232 min read
Coming soon...
I’ve got Georgia on my mind. O’Keeffe, that is. A new exhibition opens in days at The San Diego Museum of Art featuring the iconic artist...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Apr 18, 20233 min read
Traces of Texas y'all...
The older I get the more important it is for me to go home. Home to Texas home where my youth played out. Where my girl hood launched....
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Apr 10, 20232 min read
It's orange blossom time again...
Once up a time, I wrote a book. The inspiration for my first book was a poem—“Invitation to a Voyage”—by Charles Baudelaire, one of the...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Mar 31, 20231 min read
The mighty Kumquat's season is here!
Harvest time. Not fruits of my bygone Camelot, Lush wine grapes Juicy oranges. Instead, the modest kumquat Is sought From my hillside...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Mar 20, 20232 min read
No "Sunshine on my Shoulders"...
Vincent Van Gogh, who experienced many tumultuous seasons as he created his radically idiosyncratic, emotionally evocative art,...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Mar 1, 20233 min read
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, 20233 min read
"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
Jan 25, 20232 min read
Random reflection on a recent very cool road trip!
After multiple crunch time plane excursions, the idea of getting in an automobile and traveling north from San Diego had great appeal....
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