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Alice Adeline Cooke, in her mugshot, after being convicted of bigamy and theft. Nice!

Look! A Real Person!

July 10, 2012 · by Bethany · in insecurity, non-fiction, obsessions, uncategorized, writing

  I love human beings. Not necessarily individual ones, like to talk to, in person, but to watch, to admire, to experience, say, on a subway car full of them. Or to look at pictures of them, in their lives….

Salon has a winner today!

Salon has a winner today!

June 28, 2012 · by Bethany · in fear, insecurity, love, non-fiction, obsessions, writing

T just passed this on to me (via Facebook….grrrr…..). Wowza, Ms. Purtill! She just made it on to my women I want to talk to list. Oh, the irony of her getting all those “likes” as she writes about giving…

Earnestness incarnate (Antioch 1989?)

Is Someone Sitting in My Chair?

June 26, 2012 · by Bethany · in beauty, cultcha, insecurity, obsessions, poetry, religion, uncategorized, writing

  There was a time when I hated anyone who mentioned the New Yorker without irony. And then I graduated from Antioch, grew the hair on my head, shaved the rest, that tired old cliche of moving into the mainstream,…

Oh, man

Kathleen Norris (on Acedeia, Ego, and Being Sincere) Helps me Work it Out

June 22, 2012 · by Bethany · in interviews, obsessions, religion, uncategorized, writing

My interview with Kathleen Norris, author of Cloister Walk, Dakota, Acedia and others, was one of the few that was not run by The Sun. It wasn’t my favorite either. However, this part about acedia and ego was interesting, I…

Can you believe that adorable sashed number is a bathrobe?

Am I the Only one Who Can’t Handle Facebook?

June 21, 2012 · by Bethany · in fear, insecurity, obsessions, uncategorized, writing

Seriously. I just can’t be. And yet…I look at the cool, interesting, happy, or maybe tortured, but in any case somehow styled, or, rather, curated, pictures strewn across my computer screen—people I once knew, people I wished I had never…

Alrighty, then

Alrighty, then

June 19, 2012 · by Bethany · in insecurity, non-fiction, writing

    As I describe in my first post, I was hypnotized a couple months ago to quit smoking. I was (am?) a very  light smoker, but attached to it nonetheless. Well, what started as one drag, turned into one…

Cottages, cottages

Coupling: A Piece from Before

June 11, 2012 · by Bethany · in non-fiction, obsessions, uncategorized, writing

In addition to writing what I feel like writing, I wanted to start this blog in order to share some of the work I have done in the past that has not found its chair. This piece was recently rejected…

Today I was Hypnotized

Today I was Hypnotized

April 30, 2012 · by Bethany · in family, obsessions, writing

Me and smoking go way back. I was smoking before I was born, in utero, and then during pretty much every waking moment of my life that I shared with either of my parents, or most of my relatives, if…

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ABOUT ME
My name is Bethany Saltman. I am 50 years old.

From as far back as I can remember, I have been searching for my place in the world. When my husband worked in a nursing home, there was an old lady there who used to repeat, "Is this my chair? Is this my chair?" I can relate to that lady.

My website is bethanysaltman.com, and my email is bethanysaltman@gmail.com.

ABOUT THIS SITUATION
I started this blog because I was so deeply fatigued by waiting for word on Non-Fiction Book Proposal #3 that, for the first time in my life, I needed something to do.

And because I was so over the hope that if I did this, or that, or the other thing just right, and schmoozed the perfect contact, crafted the most riveting pitch, delivered the juiciest proposal, then, then.....

I finally decided to just write what I want to write.

So that's the situation.

Eatables

  • 101 Cookbooks
  • Peekamoose

Go-tos

  • Zen Center of New York City/Fire Lotus Temple
  • Zen Mountain Monastery

Readables

  • A Public Space
  • Arts and Letters Daily
  • Brain Pickings
  • Corinne Purtill
  • http://www.spoonwiz.com/
  • Maud Newton
  • McSweeney's
  • My column. Flowers Fall: Field Notes from a Buddhist Mom's Experimental Life
  • n + 1
  • Rachel Zucker

Relate-ables

  • Annie Dwyer Internicola
  • Corinne Purtill
  • Heather King
  • Leanne Shapton
  • Lisa Catherine Harper
  • Rachel Zucker

Things That Intrigue Me

  • Who Were They?

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