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Beth Riungu
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Age of Empathy

When Your Kid Chooses a Path You Never Imagined

These are dangerous times — how did we end up here?

8 min readMay 25, 2024

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Young man wearing the Dress Blues uniform of the US Marine Corps, formal white hat balanced on his forearm. Behind him is the ocean shore and a clear blue sky.

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Beth Riungu
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Age of Empathy

Short Story Long: Adoring Alice Munro

A writer’s writer who condensed the power of the novel into her short stories, does Alice Munro offer a model for the fiction writing of…

6 min readMay 19, 2024

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A small, hexagonal, 18th-century teahouse, painted bright yellow. with red and turquoise trim. Surrounded by bare wintery trees and set in a bright moss-green lawn.

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Beth Riungu

My Writing Sorted by Theme

I write in a diverse array of niches. This library is the easiest way to find the essays you’ll enjoy.

3 min readFeb 4, 2024

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My Writing Sorted by Theme

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Beth Riungu

Writer at the Crossroads of Time, Place, and Money

Reflections as I hatch a plan to give myself a year dedicated to writing

5 min read2 days ago

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A soggy winter’s day in a public park, bare trees line a slick walkway that leads to a red brick rotunda, the lower level has high opan arches and tiny figures are walking through

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Beth Riungu
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Deep. Sweet. Valuable.

Secrets and Lies: What My Fiction Characters Reveal About Me

Writing about other people teaches me a lot about myself

5 min readMay 25, 2024

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Selfie of the author reflected in multiple mirror panels with a man, unreflected also taking a selfie. Setting is outdoors among summer trees, colors are blues and yellow-greens.

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Beth Riungu
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Grief Book Club

Unproud Moments in Bankers Boxes

A poem

2 min readMay 1, 2024

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Long, white clapboard house with 3 chimneys, the side is covered by a painting of the upper body of a black woman — eyes closed, hand reaching up to pluck a miracle, a blue butterfly at her throat chakra, and a gold halo behind her head.

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Beth Riungu
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Age of Empathy

Code-Switching for Play and Knife Fights

I learned early that how you speak matters as much as what you say and sometimes it’s safer to play chameleon

6 min readApr 25, 2024

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A larger-life bronze statue of a boy on a rocking horse, on a white plinth, background of winter-blue sky and a gold-brown bed of reeds

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Beth Riungu
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The Writing Cooperative

Why Being a Voyeur is Great for Creative Writing

Take a seat at the peep show of life and maximize your powers of observation

5 min readApr 25, 2024

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concrete gray sculpture of a man in swimming trunks perches high atop a giant metal cage filled with discarded beach chairs, the cage is 30 feet (10m) high so he is silhouetted against the sky

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Beth Riungu
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Six Word Photo Story Challenge

Spring Cleaning My Psyche

April Six Word Photo Story Challenge: “Reflect”

2 min readApr 20, 2024

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A brown-skin woman gazes at her reflection in a multi-faceted mirror against a white-paneled background. She wears a denim jacket and holds a cellphone camera with a bright floral case. Pieces of her face repeat and ripple out like an aura.

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Beth Riungu
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The Writing Cooperative

How Liz Gilbert Made Me Get a Tattoo and Become a ‘Real’ Writer

Reinventing myself called for a serious commitment to playfulness

7 min readApr 15, 2024

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Selfie taken in my bathroom mirror, phone covers my lower face but my eyes look happily surprised. Wearing a grey tanktop that reveals my tattoo of a crow with flowers.

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Beth Riungu

Beth Riungu

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Essayist and short storyist. Subscribe at https://tinyurl.com/BRwrites for reflections on reading, writing, and running around without glasses.

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