Marilyn Gardner WoodsNov 9, 20203 minA 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....
Marilyn Gardner WoodsOct 30, 20201 minPlease come.This brilliant and delightful person has been my writing buddy, since we both began to write seriously just over five years ago. My...
Marilyn Gardner WoodsOct 22, 20205 minIn 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...
Marilyn Gardner WoodsOct 12, 20203 minHalloween warning for DIYers...Chesterton, Ohio in 1968. Mom came from Texas to visit just about this time of year. A beautiful autumn in the Midwest. My small tots...
Marilyn Gardner WoodsOct 4, 20205 minOctober 2020October 2020 is here—an October like none other in my lifetime. Octobers of my past flutter through my mind like falling leaves. I’ll...
Marilyn Gardner WoodsSep 24, 20202 minSafe-distanced Book ClubFifteen very entertaining women-live and in vibrant technicolor, plus a couple on Zoom invited me to be a guest at their recent Book Club...
Marilyn Gardner WoodsSep 13, 20202 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...
Marilyn Gardner WoodsAug 31, 20202 minIt 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...
Marilyn Gardner WoodsAug 30, 20202 minSummer of orangeSummer of orange Valencias outside my window Fruit of inspiration Fragrance swirling in the air My book in blossom Everything orange Days...
Marilyn Gardner WoodsAug 25, 20205 minReading 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...
Marilyn Gardner WoodsAug 12, 20207 minAround in circles...I find myself going around in quarantine circles, screen to screen to screen.ad With dizzying regularity. Like a pirouetting ballerina,...
Marilyn Gardner WoodsAug 2, 20203 minI 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...
Marilyn Gardner WoodsJul 22, 20203 minMasked memories, murals, and merriment...Here we are, all masked souls. At least a large majority of us. Or is the majority not so large? Whether you think masking is good or...
Marilyn Gardner WoodsJul 13, 20202 minOranges 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...
Marilyn Gardner WoodsJun 28, 20203 minWho doesn't love a love story?I know I loved writing one... The Orange Woods - Seasons in the Country Artfully Lived has been out in the safe-distanced world now for...
Marilyn Gardner WoodsJun 20, 20203 minFlat Belly...The long and winding road to flat belly… In reality the road is long, but not winding. In order for me to pare down the girth of my...
Marilyn Gardner WoodsJun 14, 20201 minIf you read......would be very grateful and would love to hear from you. Available from your independent bookstore at Bookstore.org or at Amazon - The...
Marilyn Gardner WoodsJun 10, 20201 minHugely talented!Meet MB Hanrahan, a multi-talented artist who lives and creates in Ventura, California. According to the artist, who considers herself a...
Marilyn Gardner WoodsJun 1, 20201 minAt last...I’m beyond thrilled that my book, The Orange Woods – Seasons in the Country Lived Artfully – has just been released. The road to...
Marilyn Gardner WoodsMay 24, 20203 minSuggestions for an un-lumpy life...It’s midway through the third month of shelter-in-place and strangely, this surreal stage play has become normal. And just as that has...