...to say that "age matters." To say it doesn't belies the fact that age drives nearly everything we do from birth to...
Betsy Ashton
Surviving Writer’s Brain Cramps
Over the weekend I came down with a bad case of cramps. Writer's cramps. Brain cramps. Words got stuck, no matter what...
Why I Don’t Run For A plane
Back in the late 73s, I was stuck in traffic on my way to Los Angeles International Airport to catch a PSA jet to San...
Pods, Pods, Pods
I've been thinking a lot about pods lately. All kinds of pods. Pea pods, to be sure, since the harvest is in and...
#ARoomofOne’sOwn
Let's face it. We are spending more time in our homes than in offices or other places of work. We use our own space,...
#BackToSchool
By the end of July, I'd be anxiously looking forward to the first day of school, usually Tuesday after Labor Day. I...
#StayHomeAndRead
Like most of us, I've been doing a lot of reading and writing lately. My most recent book was Heath Hardage...
Musings on Privilege
I used to think that privilege meant you had to have a lot of money, that you had to be born into the "right" level of...
What Unties Us
You read that right. It's not a typo. I've been thinking about how unmoored, how unanchored, how adrift so many of us...
Finding Peace in the Time of COVID-19
We're all doing our best to stay calm in the midst of a daily tsunami of bad news. As a writer, it's less...
From Memoir to Novel
#ICYMI, It Started With a Memory What did? Out of the Desert. That memory was triggered by an old black-and-white...
Back with a new book
It took longer than I thought, but I am proud to announce that OUT OF THE DESERT is now available in print...