Beth Ashley

Telford

Journalist, Writer and Editor at Freelance

❤️‍🔥 journalist: sex & social class ❤️‍🔥 author of Sluts ❤️‍🔥 rep: @florencerees93 ❤️‍🔥 commissions: [email protected]

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Best of Beth Ashley: The simple joy of a walk along Corte Madera Creek

1 week ago | marinij.com | Beth Ashley

Editor’s note: The IJ is reprinting some of the late Beth Ashley’s columns. This is from 2017. Sometimes, it seems, you really can turn the clock back when you want to. Last week, I went back more than a decade, to the time when I walked every day on the bike path next to Corte Madera Creek, watching oarsmen row by and stately egrets pace the shore. I hardly missed a day for 14 years.
Best of Beth Ashley: When your driving days are over

2 weeks ago | marinij.com | Beth Ashley

Editor’s note: The IJ is reprinting some of the late Beth Ashley’s columns. This is from 2014. You can read it everywhere — one of the toughest things about getting older is the need to stop driving. I had dreaded the possibility for myself. Driving one’s own car is the epitome of independence — of freedom. I have read heart-wrenching stories of sons and daughters who are forced to take their parents’ car keys, putting an abrupt stop to one of Mom and Dad’s primary joys.
Best of Beth Ashley: Whatever your age, life has its treats

3 weeks ago | marinij.com | Beth Ashley

Editor’s note: The IJ is reprinting some of the late Beth Ashley’s columns. This is from 2016. It’s OK if you don’t want to read this column. When I was younger, I couldn’t imagine reading anything written by someone 90 years old. I just turned 90, so you’re free to go. Ninety, of course, is almost an unheard-of age. Why would anyone want to stick around that many years? Well, let me tell you. Despite the drawbacks, 90 is still worth living.
Best of Beth Ashley: A mother is a mother forever

1 month ago | marinij.com | Beth Ashley

Editor’s note: The IJ is reprinting some of the late Beth Ashley’s columns. This is from 2017. For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been blessed with a visit from my No. 4 son. Gil lives in Boulder, Colorado, now, so — more’s the pity — I don’t see him often. We talk on the phone and email a lot, but I want what any mother wants — a check-in, a conversation, an occasional hug.
Best of Beth Ashley: Finding your best self isn’t always easy

1 month ago | marinij.com | Beth Ashley

Editor’s note: The IJ is reprinting some of the late Beth Ashley’s columns. This is from 2017. Our new red car is in the shop this week, getting the front bumper and one fender repaired. Just thinking about it makes me angry. While we were attending the San Francisco Ballet last week, someone hit our parked car and did $2,000 worth of damage. Accidents happen, of course, but that doesn’t excuse lousy behavior. Whoever hit our car did not leave us a note accepting blame. What a creep.
Why are we obsessed with body counts again?

1 month ago | mashable.com | Beth Ashley

Picture this: it’s a busy Tuesday and you’re running into town to run errands on your lunch break. You’re balancing about six items in your arms and already having a stressful day when you’re approached by a man-child with his phone in your face and a tiny microphone in his hand. That’s when he asks you, “What’s your body count?”He awaits your answer impatiently and you’re confused, frustrated, and not sure why the question is so important. Yet there’s still an immense pressure to answer it.
Best of Beth Ashley: Oddball childhood has its pros and cons

1 month ago | marinij.com | Beth Ashley

Editor’s note: The IJ is reprinting some of the late Beth Ashley’s columns. This is from 2017. My husband and I have just read a book about Harvard Law School, which prompted conversations about different schools we’ve attended. My list was long: In my pre-college years, I changed schools 17 times. My dad had lost his money and his job in the financial crash of 1929, and sought for the rest of his life to put his professional life back together.
Best of Beth Ashley: Requirements for happiness change as you get older

1 month ago | marinij.com | Beth Ashley

Editor’s note: The IJ is reprinting some of the late Beth Ashley’s columns. This is from 2017. So how does one celebrate a birthday in marvelous Marin? Oh, what a time we had. We drove to West Marin, through the redwoods and emphatic green hills, not positive of our destination, but eager to see Tomales Bay or the ocean. We ended up in Inverness at a waterside restaurant called Fog, where we could look across Tomales Bay at the smattering of buildings that is Marshall.
Best of Beth Ashley: They don’t make columnists like they used to

2 months ago | marinij.com | Beth Ashley

Editor’s note: The IJ is reprinting some of the late Beth Ashley’s columns. This is from 2014. I felt a bit alienated from most of the other people who attended the recent National Society of Newspaper Columnists convention in Washington, D.C.First, I felt pretty long in the tooth; most of the speakers and many of the attendees were much younger than I. Secondly, I discovered that few of them actually wrote regular columns for newspapers, but wrote freelance offerings or blogs instead. Blogs? Really?
Best of Beth Ashley: A full life in one word - grateful

2 months ago | marinij.com | Beth Ashley

Editor’s note: The IJ is reprinting some of the late Beth Ashley’s columns. This is from 2015. I had dinner with four friends the other night. For fun, I asked each of them to come up with an adjective that would best describe their current state of mind. “Happy,” declared one woman, and I wasn’t surprised: She’s happily married, great to look at, travels far and wide, and has scads of good friends. What’s not to be happy about?

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