Betsy Ashton

My Summer Vacation 2024

I hadn’t planned my summer vacation to include what happened to me, but it did. Let’s start at the beginning. My local hospital sent me a reminder to schedule a annual routine exam. I arrived, stripped from the waist up as I had done for at least fifteen years. My...
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An Open Letter

This is an open letter to the First Lady, Dr. Jill Biden. Dear Dr. Biden, I belong to a group of ten women all of whom have one thing in common: we live with beloved husbands who are battling various neuro-degenerative  conditions. None of us are doctors; we are...
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Other Than That…

So, there we were on Saturday, April 13, just back from grocery shopping when at 11:15A we heard a huge crash outside. I looked at my husband. He looked at me. "That wasn't an explosion," he said. "That wasn't a crash out on the water." We were both right. It was a...
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Mom, Vin Scully, and Me

In 1958, my mother took me to see my first Major League Baseball game in the L.A. Coliseum. The Dodgers had just moved to Los Angeles from Brooklyn. We played the then New York Giants before they moved to San Francisco. I fell in love with the game, even though the...
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An Open Letter

Jul 26, 2024 |

This is an open letter to the First Lady, Dr. Jill Biden. Dear Dr. Biden, I belong to a group of ten women all of whom...

If Not Now

If Not Now

May 27, 2022 |

I'm likely to catch hell for this post, but I don't care. I've written passionately about rape, bullying, drug...

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