Beth Ashley

4 days 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.

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. 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.

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. 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?

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 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?

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 2015. When we went to hear Gloria Steinem speak at the Civic Center recently, I half-expected Rowland to turn up his nose. He likes to call members of the women’s movement feminazis. (Thanks, Rush Limbaugh.)In fact, Rowland found her charming. Instead of trying to hit us over the head with her views, she spoke softly, engagingly.