A historical collection of our writing.
Bethany CrystalThere may be no greater sense of satisfaction than the moment that follows a late night organization project. We moved in May, and here we are in November, when we finally emptied the last box. There’s always a place where those extras end up. For us we got lucky this time with one of those […] Read more (opens Medium in a new tab)
Bethany CrystalMy college education was a fairly perfect stereotype: I’m a white woman who studied journalism who married a white man who studied in a STEM field. Interestingly, while he’s the one who majored in biomedical engineering and computer engineering, I’m the one who wound up in tech. And after all these […] Read more (opens Medium in a new tab)
Bethany CrystalI’ll never forget the first time I put on headphones for my CD player. I was in high school and I’m pretty sure the CD was Moulin Rouge, the movie musical with Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman. In all likelihood I was at home in my bedroom and I put on that first track of […] Read more (opens Medium in a new tab)
Bethany CrystalAnd just like that, many of my close female friends are pregnant. It happened all at once. Except of course, that it didn’t. Some were likely trying for months. Some got lucky on the first try. Some weren’t really “trying” at all. (And by the way, some probably still are.) But there’s something […] Read more (opens Medium in a new tab)
Bethany CrystalI’ve been wanting to write more for years. Literally, years. Throughout my life, I’ve had multiple ebbs and flows of my persistence in regular writing. There have been years where I wrote nearly daily, a period where I wrote a first draft of a book, and years where I didn’t write at all. In recent […] Read more (opens Medium in a new tab)
Bethany CrystalThis evening, in a shop in Hayes Valley, I witnessed a woman enter the store and quietly carry out an entire rack of children’s clothing without paying. The shop-keeper, hearing a slight rustle, turned from me and raced after her, shouting in the street until the woman dropped the merchandise. She […] Read more (opens Medium in a new tab)
