Entries by Bethany

What’s Your Gift?

December 18, 2015 /2 Comments/in /by

  I  love getting my daily email from Advice to Writers. It reminds me that I am a writer, before I even open it, and the advice is so often spot-on to what I’ve been thinking about, that it’s uncanny. So, this, from John Green, author of Looking for Alaska, The Fault in Our Stars, and other […]

Twisted Vine

December 12, 2015 /2 Comments/in /by

I have two poems in the Fall 2015 issue of Twisted Vine — live now! The typo (a comma instead of a period) at the end of my poem “Afterward” is my typo and not theirs, I was much chagrined to discover. What comes afterward, is open-ended, right?

Under Lockdown

December 8, 2015 /5 Comments/in /by

Yesterday I once again got the dreaded, automated call from my daughter’s high school — the third time this school year — “under lockdown.” My gut twisted and the muscles in my shoulders and arms seized up. I had that weird fight or flight adrenaline rush, weird because there was no where to go and […]