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Beth C. Morley

Firsts & Lasts

When your children are small every first and last is a celebration. First steps, last diaper. First solids, last nursing. First time they…

3 min readDec 6, 2021

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Life’s Epilogue

Jews have a very structured way of mourning. It happens in three stages, Aninut, which is the period from the death to burial, and then…

2 min readAug 20, 2021

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Life’s Epilogue

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Beth C. Morley

Grieving and Mourning

As somebody who trades in words I’ve grown to have a deep appreciation for the precision of the English language. English has a word for…

3 min readJul 1, 2021

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Beth C. Morley

The Prologue

When I was in fifth grade I had to write a story about an inanimate object. It was an exercise in personification and while most students…

3 min readJun 1, 2021

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Beth C. Morley

To Stand Alone

I talk a lot about my culturally and racially diverse family. I’m proud of my rainbow coalition of family members and like to think that…

3 min readApr 18, 2021

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To Stand Alone

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Beth C. Morley

Advice From A Bad Parent

I never assumed I would be a good parent. As a matter of fact I didn’t like babysitting and I generally found children unpleasant. I held…

4 min readApr 7, 2021

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Advice From A Bad Parent

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Beth C. Morley

The Third Act

I turned fifty in the middle of a pandemic. I am not the only person who experienced a milestone while on quarantine and mine is hardly…

2 min readApr 5, 2021

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The Third Act

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Beth C. Morley

Adulting

In November of 2015 my mother was admitted to the hospital for an infection that had turned sepsis. Like many systematic infections it…

2 min readMar 18, 2021

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Adulting

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Beth C. Morley

Beth C. Morley

I write about writing and my life and sometimes about books but never about politics because we are all sick of that nonsense.

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