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The long shadow

The long shadow

When Alice Sanborn and best friend Jerushah cross paths with a bounty hunter in 1850 in rural northern Vermont, the teens stage a daring rescue.

2018

Stories

BethKanell

What Moves Last: Kitchen, Office, Art? Or My Heart?

Re-telling old traumas for these segments sometimes comes pretty easily — I’ve told them often enough to cover the wounds with thicker…

7 min read4 days ago

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What Moves Last: Kitchen, Office, Art? Or My Heart?

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BethKanell

Work–Life Balance for Writers: Inking a Successful Process

The Big Lessons

5 min readApr 25, 2024

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Work–Life Balance for Writers: Inking a Successful Process

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BethKanell

Twenty-Five Tons of Trash

If hate, despair, and anger could be measured in terms of deliberate trash on a piece of land, there was no doubt: The last renters at the…

8 min readApr 14, 2024

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Twenty-Five Tons of Trash

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Work Off the Grief; Try Exhilaration

We don’t talk about it in “widow world” — or at least, not in the part of the group I connect with. “It” is the sense that life without…

7 min readMar 29, 2024

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Work Off the Grief; Try Exhilaration

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Clearing Land — Industrial Style

In real life, unlike in the adventure and crime novels I’ve written and read, things don’t change overnight, and a day is not crammed with…

9 min readMar 18, 2024

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Clearing Land — Industrial Style

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How Bad Could It Be?

Things looked grim financially. My youngest brother and his wife pushed me through settling the debts from caring for Dave at home in his…

6 min readMar 7, 2024

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How Bad Could It Be?

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Code Like A Girl

Risking Becoming a Mom With 1970s STEM Employment

My chemistry degree showed my knowledge was equal to that of the men around me, much like the Scarecrow in "The Wizard of Oz." But that…

10 min readFeb 29, 2024

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Risking Becoming a Mom With 1970s STEM Employment

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“If You’re Going Through Hell, Keep Going”

(Apparently that wasn’t really said by Winston Churchill. Darn.)

5 min readFeb 27, 2024

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“If You’re Going Through Hell, Keep Going”

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BethKanell

Falling to Pieces and Finding Some (Human) Gorilla Glue

Five thousand more of my husband’s books left the house by a rented hauling truck, headed for New Jersey, all mysteries, mostly signed…

8 min readFeb 20, 2024

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Falling to Pieces and Finding Some (Human) Gorilla Glue

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Code Like A Girl

You’re the Only “Girl” in the Lab. Do You Automatically Wash the Dishes?

Being a Female Chemist in the 1970s

9 min readFeb 12, 2024

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You’re the Only “Girl” in the Lab. Do You Automatically Wash the Dishes?

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BethKanell

BethKanell

Book Author

Braiding loss, joy, love. Award-winning author of YA adventures like This Ardent Flame; The Long Shadow, more. bethkanell.blogspot.com; member SinC, NBCC.

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