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LIFE'S SECOND ACTS
a blog by Marilyn Woods
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Jun 14, 20201 min read
If 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...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Jun 10, 20201 min read
Hugely talented!
Meet MB Hanrahan, a multi-talented artist who lives and creates in Ventura, California. According to the artist, who considers herself a...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Jun 1, 20201 min read
At last...
I’m beyond thrilled that my book, The Orange Woods – Seasons in the Country Lived Artfully – has just been released. The road to...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
May 24, 20203 min read
Suggestions 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...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
May 17, 20201 min read
Intoxicating...
“Did you ever sleep in a field of orange-trees in bloom? The air which one inhales deliciously is a quintessence of perfumes. This...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
May 5, 20202 min read
HAPPY CINCO DE MAYO!
Twelve years ago, my granddaughter, Chesapeake Woods with hair the color of orange marmalade, was born and I bought a book for her, a...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Apr 30, 20202 min read
My most favorite mask...
With masks front and center for us all, the one on my bedpost, my Mojiganga Mask from San Miguel de Allende, makes me so darned happy....
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Apr 18, 20203 min read
Burning questions...
Cubism or Surrealism? Will I remember the differences? Will my hands ever un-shrivel? How does Willie Nelson go so well with isolation?...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Apr 8, 20202 min read
Shelter in Place, Week Four
Hair dryer blows my shaggy, faded, badly-in-need-of-a-salon visit head of hair into the air; the warm setting feels good on a gray rainy...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Mar 30, 20202 min read
April in...
I admit it. I whined when he suggested traveling in April. “Why on earth do you want to leave here—it’s the most perfect time of the...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Mar 22, 20201 min read
Wondering
What’s the world doing now While I wash sheets polish brass What’s the world doing now I’m slowed down, alone Contented, anxious What’s...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Mar 17, 20201 min read
COVID conversation...
It’s hard to find things to be happy about, grateful over, or even looking forward to, especially if you tune into the news of our...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Mar 16, 20209 min read
Isolation-an orange, a dog and a puzzle
My friend, Bess, planted a seed in my brain. When I told her of cancelling my much-anticipated trip home to Texas, she countered: How to...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Mar 13, 20202 min read
Cancelled - darn it!
Not a big deal in the whole scheme of things, but huge, huge, huge disappointment for me. However, I do have to go to Texas often, so as...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Mar 8, 20208 min read
Hankering for...
If I were a rock star, my souvenir concert tour t-shirt would read: TEXAS TOUR 2020 Dallas Fort Worth Sweetwater Buffalo Gap Boerne...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Feb 23, 20205 min read
Book Club and beyond...
I joined a new book club recently. New to me. Over the years, I have participated in numerous book clubs, social gatherings of...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Feb 14, 20203 min read
Carly in the house...
Carly and I have been living together now almost five weeks and I have written regularly about our escapades together. However, since my...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Feb 5, 20201 min read
Carly in the house...
It’s not uncommon for a writer to suffer from what’s called Writer’s Block. In some ways, it resembles a Batter’s Slump. It’s...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Jan 21, 20204 min read
How many days in Alcohol-free January?
As I see it, there are five distinctive stages in the of undertaking of an alcohol-free January. Also, a modicum of grief. Having owned a...
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Marilyn Gardner Woods
Dec 31, 20194 min read
A blur...
My holiday season was as hectic as any prolonged celebration in my history. It’s almost over now and I’m beyond exhausted. It began with...
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