Marilyn Gardner Woods
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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LIFE'S SECOND ACTS
a blog by Marilyn Woods
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Dec 11, 2020
- 2 min
Only in my dreams...
Just after Thanksgiving, a surreal sans-turkey seasonal affair, I began to play my collection of Christmas music, feeling the need for...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Nov 28, 2020
- 3 min
Thanksgiving leftover...
Easily the oddest Thanksgiving ever. The family unit carved up like a turkey. In Arizona, they put up their Christmas tree and had cereal...
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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
- Nov 22, 2020
- 6 min
My dining room. Inspired by Billy Collins, Poet Laureate.
It’s a small quaint room, my dining room, where meals are rarely eaten. The feast is on the wall, a gallery of art. A peony flower floats...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Nov 16, 2020
- 3 min
A last moment with a master...
I have spent twenty years talking about extraordinary works of art at The San Diego Museum of Art. The last time was eight months ago on...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Nov 9, 2020
- 3 min
A 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....
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Oct 30, 2020
- 1 min
Please come.
This brilliant and delightful person has been my writing buddy, since we both began to write seriously just over five years ago. My...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Oct 22, 2020
- 5 min
In 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...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Oct 12, 2020
- 3 min
Halloween 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...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Oct 4, 2020
- 5 min
October 2020
October 2020 is here—an October like none other in my lifetime. Octobers of my past flutter through my mind like falling leaves. I’ll...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
- Sep 24, 2020
- 2 min
Safe-distanced Book Club
Fifteen very entertaining women-live and in vibrant technicolor, plus a couple on Zoom invited me to be a guest at their recent Book Club...
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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 12, 2020
- 7 min
Around in circles...
I find myself going around in quarantine circles, screen to screen to screen.ad With dizzying regularity. Like a pirouetting ballerina,...
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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 21, 2020
- 3 min
Masked 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...
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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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