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 […]
I Could Love You That Way The way a woman cleans house, tying her hair in a kerchief, knocking down cobwebs with a broom. All day gathering clothes and toys and books from beneath the beds, vacuuming under the couch cushions, scrubbing the drains, polishing the fixtures. I could love you that way, methodically, thoroughly, […]