Entries by Bethany

How to Set Goals

I am a failure at meeting big goals. This year I tried to game the system — my personal system, I mean. I signed up for on-line goal setting challenges. I read books about setting goals. I wrote down all of my goals. I opened an Evernote account and wrote all of my goals there. […]

Poets in the Park

Next weekend I’ll be reading in Redmond at Poets in the Park. I’m on the schedule twice (to my surprise), at 4:00 with writers Priscilla Long, Holly Hughes, and John Wright, and again a little later in the day, 5-5:30, along with Polly Buckingham of Stringtown, and Robert McNamara. Click here to see the full schedule of […]

When Women Were Birds

I bought this lovely book last summer while on a mini-retreat in Port Townsend. Then, as I often do, I mislaid the book and didn’t read it. The other day, a friend asked if I wanted to see Terry Tempest Williams with her at the Mount Baker Theatre in Bellingham (tonight!). Despite my usual crazy-busy […]