Books
Betty’s most recent, and a couple more!
Betty writes with wisdom and humor about aging, as well as many of life’s stages. In a career encompassing sculpture, painting, freelance writing, and performing, the author turned to writing from her heart in her late seventies. At eighty-nine, she offers her first published book. Betty’s work has appeared in the anthologies Get Out of My Crotch, 80 Things to Do When You Turn 80, Open House, Better with Age, and Lightwood, an online magazine. She has performed her work for WritersRead, TMI Project, and Woodstock Bookfest. Betty hosts Words Carry Us, a monthly livestream of readings and interviews from Green Kill, in Kingston, NY.
Turning 80 can be the beginning of a new chapter as the notable contributors to 80 Things to Do When You Turn 80 can attest. In this lively and inspiring collection of 80 essays, such illustrious achievers as Betty MacDonald, Donald Hall, Pat Boone, Tab Hunter, Ruta Lee, The Amazing Kreskin, George Lois, Richard ( Mr. Debonair ) Dwyer, Dr. Ruth Heidrich, and Caroll Spinney reveal how they are having meaningful, dynamic lives at 80 and beyond.
In this collection, twenty-one fearless writers examine reproductive rights, access to health care, violence against women, and the rise of rape apologists in the twenty-first-century United States. Illuminating intersections of gender, class, and race, these stories speak to the challenges women routinely face, the attempts to undermine their rights, and the deliberate, systemic erosion of their agency and existence as equals. It's time to revisit what's at stake, what could still be lost, and why we must continually fight for equality and freedom for all.
Contributors are Roxane Gay, Betty MacDonald, Katha Pollitt, Dolores P, Sari Botton, Addy Robinson McCulloch,Tara Murtha, Sarah Mirk, Kari O'Driscoll, Martha Bayne, Janet Frishberg, Mira Ptacin, J. Victoria Sanders, s.e. smith, Camille Hayes, Rebecca K. O' Connor, Lidia Yuknavitch, Elissa Bassist, Kevin Sampsell, Kate Sheppard, and Rebecca Cohen.