Entries by Bethany

Review of SPARROW at EIL

I was so excited to find this in my email this morning, a review of my poetry book at the marvelous EIL… and then the review itself — I’m blissed out! Thank you, Kathleen Kirk! http://www.escapeintolife.com/blog/review-of-sparrow-by-bethany-reid/  

Where Do You Work?

    Lately I have felt like a one-woman tutoring center, helping to write English papers — one, notably, at midnight — and Political Science papers and Northwest History papers, graphing sunspots for Physical Science (that was interesting), and running through index cards of Spanish vocabulary. But my two oldest daughters are — finally — […]

Leap of Faith

About a month ago I was at Village Books with my daughter Annie, and I spied a copy of Pema Chodron‘s Taking the Leap. This is a book I’ve picked up multiple times, held in my hand, read the first few pages…and put back on the shelf. $14. Do I really need one more book? Annie was […]

About Time

As my husband has generously pointed out, the paperwork sent home with me the other day from the orthopedic visit specifies a lateral malleolus fracture. The x-ray report in my GHC inbox states: 1. OBLIQUE NONDISPLACED FRACTURE OF THE DISTAL FIBULA. 2. OSTEOCHONDRAL FRACTURE OF THE LATERAL TALAR DOME. I have been doing some time-tripping. […]