Beth's Line Upon Line

  The film   Civil War   debuted this weekend, but it is not about the past Civil War, the one where the good guys and the bad guys and the ...

  I love to read. In 2023, I read 79 books, usually two or three books at a time--audible, digital, and paper. A lot of my reading is just f...

  A friend just asked me why I haven’t written a blog post for a while. First, I told her how flattered I was she had noticed. Then I said, ...

    When my daughter went to work the day after Halloween, she found an informal poll scrawled on the breakroom white board:  Christmas Musi...

If you follow the news, there’s a lot to worry about these days: violent and deadly wars in both Israel/Palestine and in Ukraine, a deadly e...

  Last Saturday some of our family drove south to see the eclipse. It was total annular eclipse, just 100 miles or so away. We stood on a fi...

  Recently our neighborhood came together to do something really hard.     Our local park is bordered on one side by a steep hillside filled...