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Jan 8, 2025

About Me — Virginia Wood

Oops. I did it again! I’ve been here for a minute, but only just discovered I was supposed to publish my About Me Story… months ago.

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Oct 21

Arms Open to the World

On letting go

Male American Goldfinch in thistle.

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Oct 4, 2025

What do you do in retirement to feel purposeful?

I’ve been thinking about this on and off ever since my husband died 11 years ago. At the time, everybody kept saying that I was a hero…

White man’s hand holding out a compass against a backdrop of mountains and evergreens.

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Oct 1, 2025

Good to be alive

September 1865

color photo of cows grazing along the distant treeline on a misty morning just after sunrise.

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Mar 20, 2025

Back to give this a more careful read, and a more thoughtful response.

As I said before, this is solid gold. Advice I would give anybody, and advice I once followed myself. Circumstances and the time change…

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Mar 13, 2025

I remember being in my late 20s and early 30s and reading the glossy alumnae magazine that came…

Filled with rich girls (which is why I left it for another), "everybody," it seemed, was doing better than we were. Big houses, boats…

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Mar 7, 2025

Her Name Was Beauty

and she was

A kennel worker brings a black dog out on a lead to a tall guy holding a bag of dog food: she is sniffing his knees.

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Mar 2, 2025

Medicaid Saved My Son’s Life

Not once, but three times

Us, shortly after the adoption.

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Jan 25, 2025

For When It Seems Like the News All Sucks

Surviving Trumpocalypse II, one day at a time

White man clutching his head in front of an open laptop, looking distressed.

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Jan 1, 2025

How Cheating Makes You Look Stupid

and irritates and endangers the rest of us.

dude asleep in a tree, splayed over a branch like a leopard.

Virginia Wood

Virginia Woodshe/her

Retired clinical psychologist, part-time college instructor. Sober 38 years and change. Buddhist, but sweary. Trekkie. Feminist crone aging with a disability.

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