Beth's

I recommend that you read it even if you're not a BPAL junkie, if only for the first two paragraphs of Beth's first answer.

Tew's Day! taura_g 2009

Nevertheless, in the spirit of Beth's closing comment, his "story awaits closure."

The Right Stuff 2010

After the celebratory cocktails round at Beth's and a good night's sleep, there was a lazy day of recovery before heading out with Bill and Laura for dinner.

Archive 2010-06-01 Hal Duncan 2010

After the celebratory cocktails round at Beth's and a good night's sleep, there was a lazy day of recovery before heading out with Bill and Laura for dinner.

Adventures of a Couch-Hopping Scribbler Part 2: That Toddlin Town Hal Duncan 2010

"Beth's and the Do Tank's work has been an inspiration for all forms of collaborative work around civic issues, governance, and democracy."

Alexander Howard: Transit data drives economic engine for open government Alexander Howard 2011

In it, Wycoff effectively uses second-person narration to evoke a former schoolmate of Beth's, who had abandonded the "O Street Girl" as a friend but years later is moved to call Beth on the phone to explain herself.

Narrative Strategies 2009

Most of the stories are conventional slices-of-life revealing something essential about Beth's upbringing by a drug-addicted, borderline mentally ill mother, her attempts to cope with the miserable circumstances in which she is forced to live, her escape from those circumstances and subsequent efforts to establish some sense of normalcy for herself, etc.

Narrative Strategies 2009

Still, with Bree in full-Samaritan mode, the others softened up and attempted to make nice with their peroxided outsider save for Renee, who stole the episode by pointing out that Beth's tresses were messes.

Watercooler: What is Desperate Housewives Up To? 2011

The final story in particular, about the immediate aftermath of the death of Beth's mother, attempts to explicitly gather the book's otherwise implicit narrative strands but succeeds only in burdening it with too many passages of forced exposition and awkward reflection:

Narrative Strategies 2009

"Beth's and the Do Tank's work has been an inspiration for all forms of collaborative work around civic issues, governance, and democracy."

Alexander Howard: Transit data drives economic engine for open government Alexander Howard 2011