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3 weeks ago | 
literarymama.com | Tess Clarkson |Casey Walsh
Casey Mulligan Walsh, author of the memoir The Full Catastrophe(Motina Books, February 2025), is an essayist, founding editor of In a Flashliterary magazine, board member of the Family Heart Foundation, retired speech-language pathologist, mother, and grandmother. Her essays have been published in The New York Times, Split Lip Magazine, HuffPost, and more, and she’s been nominated for the Best of the Net. She lives in upstate New York with her husband.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
thegirlfriend.com | Tess Clarkson |“Michael Flatley’s Lord
Are you a woman who loves to travel? Do you enjoy swapping travel-related tips and tricks? Would you like to find a travel buddy? Then join our closed Facebook group, The Ethel On-The-Go, today. You'll love it!My winter holiday decorations are repacked in boxes stacked in a corner of my basement. Empty pots on my windowsill wait for flowers to bloom. I stare at them, longing to recover from the frenzy of the past few months. I need a temperate, majestic and quiet oasis.
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
aarp.org | Tess Clarkson
Laura Liedo Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Welcome to Ethels Tell All, where the writers behind The Ethel newsletter share their personal stories related to the joys and challenges of aging. Come back each Wednesday for the latest piece, exclusively on AARP Members Edition.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
guideposts.org | Tess Clarkson
My dad had a funny habit of barking at our elderly Shih Tzu, Daisy, whenever he came to our house. “Woof, woof,” he’d say, and Daisy would wag her tail and bark back. “Good dog!” he’d praise her. It always made me smile. Dad had dementia and lived in a senior community not too far from us. I hadn’t been able to visit him for months because of Covid restrictions, so we would have regular FaceTime calls. Each day when I talked with my father, we had the same ritual. He’d bark at Daisy.
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May 31, 2024 | 
thegirlfriend.com | Tess Clarkson |“Michael Flatley’s Lord
Are any of you looking for new friends? Do you seek connections with other women? Then join our closed Facebook group, The Ethel Circle, today. We think you'll love it!Waiting on the sidewalk outside church under a cloudless sky, I scanned the crowd. My primary school classmates in plaid jumpers, navy slacks and white button-down shirts escorted their grandparents into the large stone structure. My toes curled inside my patent leathers.
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Mar 13, 2024 | 
thegirlfriend.com | Tess Clarkson |“Michael Flatley’s Lord
While I unload the dishwasher, a podcast plays from my phone on the counter, letting me hear my favorite author talk about her book inspiration. While I drive to yoga, a podcast keeps me company and updates me on current events. Back home, folding laundry, I binge on a show about podcasting. More and more, I find myself searching for new podcasts. I love the convenience, the accessibility, the feel of listening to a show targeted to my specific interests and needs.
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Jan 26, 2024 | 
thegirlfriend.com | Tess Clarkson |“Michael Flatley’s Lord
“Do it. I want more grandchildren,” my father said on the phone as I sat in my Manhattan apartment debating freezing my eggs. I missed my mother. She’d been dead for three years. It felt bizarre to speak with my 83-year-old dad about my declining fertility. “I’m not sure I even want kids,” I said, although I hated the thought of being almost 40 and alone. I was single and childless and nearly 1,000 miles from my family.
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Jul 26, 2023 | 
literarymama.com | Tess Clarkson |Alle C Hall
Alle C. Hall is the award-winning author of the novel, As Far As You Can Go Before You Have To Come Back(Black Rose Writing, March 2023). Hall lived and traveled extensively in Japan where she taught English and was a journalist in the early 1990s. Her essays and short stories have been published in Literary Mama, Tupelo Quarterly, Evergreen Review, The Citron Review, andmore.
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Jul 17, 2023 | 
thegirlfriend.com | Tess Clarkson |“Michael Flatley’s Lord
I slipped off the treatment table and into my shoes, feeling like I’d been drugged. For an hour my doctor’s acupuncture needles let me forget that I was a single lawyer with a pending layoff date during the Great Recession. I powered on my phone. I tried calling. Can’t get through. Eithne was on the plane that went down, flashed a new text. My world crashed. Air France 447 had disappeared without a trace after leaving Brazil; 228 passengers, including my friend Eithne, were on board.
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Apr 4, 2023 | 
thegirlfriend.com | Tess Clarkson |“Michael Flatley’s Lord
Wanting an escape in nature, my husband and I traveled to several national parks. The traffic at Great Smokey Mountains fed my anxiety. Crowds blocked my view of Old Faithful at Yellowstone. Lines in Zion stole any sense of solitude. But five parks provided an idyllic sense of peace in spectacular settings. Check out these hidden gems. Canyonlands National Park, UtahWhen most people think of majestic canyons out west, the remote red rocks of Canyonlands National Park typically don’t spring to mind.
