Betsy Robinson's Blog - Posts Tagged "essay"

I'm thrilled that my essay "Walking Alone--Dangerous or Heroic?" is published in the spring issue of Canadian magazine Prairie Fire.

There were two inspirations:

In her wonderful memoir Becoming Michelle Obama wrote that if you didn’t see your own story in the cultural narrative, tell it. I’ve never seen my story in the cultural narrative. This is it.

The structure of this essay is stolen from the brilliant Maggie O’Farrell’s memoir I Am, I Am, I Am . I took her bits and reduced them further to essay size.

Thank you, Prairie Fire!!! Thank you, friends, for reading this if you feel so inspired. It's not online, but you can buy it here: https://www.prairiefire.ca/current-is...

I'm so pleased to have a new essay on Next Avenue. "Finding My Mother's 'Talk' in Her Handwriting."

Editor Julie Pfitzinger did a stunning job with the layout. Excerpt:

People say too many words. The talking heads on the news shows I'm addicted to, turning each event into "breaking bombshells!" Everybody on social media. Me.

That's the worst. The spasms to myself about what I did wrong, whatever is my frustration du jour, my judgments about what everybody else is doing — like talking too much. Too much talking is why I write. To get it succinct.

Read more at the linked title.