My college is throwing me a book party! Bethany Reid Book Signing May 22 English instructor Bethany Reid will read from her recently published poetry collection and sign copies of her book May 22 at Everett Community College. All employees are invited to the celebration from 4 to 6 p.m. May 22 at EvCC’s Nippon Business Institute, […]
Wednesday evening I’ll be reading from Sparrow at Traditions Cafe in Olympia, Washington. The program begins at 6 p.m. and includes an open mike. You should come! Or is that 6:30? Here’s the flyer: Bethany Reid–May 2013 flyer
My 13-year-old has been doing art doodles. I have found her at our local elementary school playground drawing them in a notebook. She usually holes up in her bedroom to draw. At one of our homework dates recently she talked me into buying her a cool sketchbook and sharpies. I recently found this photo on […]
Here’s a quote I came across yesterday — again — while cleaning my office. It’s from Scott Nadelson’s essay, “What About the Suffering?: the Quiet Power of Minor Characters,” which appeared in The Writer’s Chronicle in December of 2010 (and has been resurfacing in my office ever since). “[M]inor characters are bearers of possibility, but they […]