Entries by Bethany

Blog posts are piling up…

I have a review planned, as well as a blog post about my recent art class, but a malaise seems to be limiting my ability to churn much out. Meanwhile, here is a wonderful video from Brain Pickings, featuring the very prolific Neil Gaiman: Neil Gaiman’s Advice to Writers

Keeping a Notebook

I am an aficionado of notebooks. In addition to my big Lee-Valley Everyman’s Journal, which I write in at home, every morning, I carry around a smaller notebook that fits in whatever bag I’m using. I like leather-bound, smaller notebooks that fit in a purse; but lately I’ve been using plain old composition books, a […]

World Peace, and Poetry

When I heard that my friend Carla Shafer was teaching a poetry workshop in Bellingham on Feb. 28, I told her I would attend. One of my daughters goes to Western Washington University, and I thought I could have lunch with her, and thus kill two birds with one stone. I didn’t pay much attention […]