Just the other day, during a quiet moment on the drive home from a wonderful day of snowshoeing, my good friend gently said to me, “And you have an anniversary coming up?” I turned my head in his direction with a curious stare of pause. “An anniversary? No. No anniversary,” […]
Beth Caldwell – The View From Here
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What if I had turned left in the hallway at the college I was attending in the fall of 1980? What if I had turned left and found a lounge chair in a window vestibule, and plopped myself there during a cancelled class instead of going to the cafeteria for […]
Who are you? Can you answer this question without using a name title? You are not a daughter or son, woman or man, a wife, a husband, a mother, a father, a single parent, or a grandparent. You are not a supervisor, or a secretary, divorced, or a homemaker, a […]
I’ve never been one to wake up on a Monday morning and lament that it is, indeed, Monday. I never figured there was much point in that. I suppose it’s my “glass half-full” mentality. I also would rather be caught eating a whole chocolate cake by myself than actually look […]
As I wrote this column Monday evening, the thermostat outside read “deep freeze with a side order of wind chill,” just shy of minus-30 C. Nothing is fun or heart-warming about that. It is the kind of winter weather that demolishes my otherwise fervent outdoor spirit. The bullish cold drives […]
I don’t know what it is lately but I’m craving an old-fashioned life. Maybe it’s the rabbit race and pace of working so much in order to make ends meet that is the red flag for me. Perhaps it’s the impending materialistic-driven holiday season, and my sense of not wanting […]
My finger tips throbbed as if I’d just plunged them into a bucket of ice, kept them there long enough to start hyper-ventilating, and then pulled them out and hit each one with a hammer. That’s what I get for taking the gloves off on a frigid day. And if […]
I just turned 53 years old. Where has the time gone? Where have I been all my life? How did I get here? Turn around and I was 10. Turn around and I was 21. Turn around and I was 40. Turn around and here I am, not yet on […]
I’ve been away from the page. I’d love to say it was because I was in the places of my heart, like the Grand Canyon or the magnificent mountain territory of Wyoming, or on a long highway under the wild Montana skies. Nope. Those away destinations remain in my shoebox […]
A year ago, I wrote a column about the Rendez-Vous Yacht Club’s annual fall cruise and ended it with “Hurry up Spring, 2013 so we can go sailing again.” Here I am, fresh off the lake from the 2013 fall cruise and dumbfounded by the rushing river of time that […]
I own a brand new car—and I made that dream come true all on my own. I wrote the above sentence with some reluctance because I didn’t want to toot my own horn. But what the heck. I deserved, 110 percent, the shiny new wheels filled with nitrogen, the new […]
“Yes is for young people. Yes is for young people,” I chanted reassuringly to myself in the bathroom mirror as the hair dye oozed through my plastic-gloved fingertips. A lumpy trail of Vaseline jelly was layered across my forehead at the hairline and down around my ears to save my […]
