I have no vanity about the cars I drive, because I’ve rarely been able to afford it. For me, cars are like pets. I name them. I cheer them on when they are struggling. I pat them when they do well. I have relationships with my cars, some healthy, some not so much. Some were […]
Category: Society and Culture
Through my divorce and then my illness, I learned first that no matter how carefully I planned out my life, things could still go haywire, and second, that sometimes, if you just let things be what they are and trust the process they often (i.e. almost always) turn out better than you’d planned. It hasn’t […]
This is not the first time I’ve asked myself this question. It’s not the first time I’ve been scared. I have autoimmune disease. You can’t see it, but it’s always there, waiting for a moment of weakness, a worry, a stress or strain, a virus… Waiting to find something to wake it up. Waiting to […]
Sometimes I need to just check out from the world and dig deep inward, or I get lost. Here are some blessings I’m counting right now… We do not live on a schedule anymore. This is both weird and wonderful. There is no such thing as weekends, no such thing as Monday mornings, bedtimes, or […]
Why can’t we acknowledge that a broken criminal justice system does a disservice to the thousands of good cops, as well as the millions of good Black Americans? Why can’t we acknowledge that this broken system has created an environment that allows bad cops and criminals of all races to thrive? Why is it so […]
I know things have been heavy over here at The Sara Beth Times lately. These are heavy times. For the last year or so I’ve been struggling with stepping beyond the neutral, cheerful tone that worked so well in my newspaper column for all those years. When COVID-19 hit, followed by the Black Lives Matter […]
