https://www.betsysbooks.com/blog daily 0.75 2025-08-28 https://www.betsysbooks.com/blog/august-status-update monthly 0.5 2025-08-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/677f48f4af299c792dba33ed/eed3d132-9a4f-4150-9feb-66f2bc46cf76/IMG_1719.jpeg Blog - August Status Update - Make it stand out Summer Sarah! https://www.betsysbooks.com/blog/back-in-boulder monthly 0.5 2025-03-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/677f48f4af299c792dba33ed/dafa2936-746e-4d47-b055-0c91b731ad0b/IMG_3246.JPG Blog - Back in Boulder - I’m back in Colorado again, tackling the next phase of the Betsy’s Book project. I’m here for three weeks, with the goal of getting the house ready for sale. I have mixed feeling about this, ranging from: Sadness - this was our home for so long, and I will no longer have ties to Boulder once it’s sold. Resentment - why is there SO MUCH STUFF and SO MANY STAIRS in this house? Anxiety - the housing market is whacky and I don’t understand what is happening (it looks like a whole lot of NOTHING to me) Because room is filled with books, getting them out of the house is my top priority before I can focus on other stuff. So far, I have shipped 24 boxes (9x9x12) of books back to myself in Seattle so that I can continue cataloguing and distributing books when I’m back in my apartment. (Many thanks to my USPS guy and to my house sitter Camille who are going to have to haul those boxes up the stairs and into my spare bedroom!) I just purchased 14 more boxes that I will be filling up and shipping to the very generous volunteers who have offered to distribute books where they live. 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From the multiple images of the Church of our Savior in Copenhagen that I found all over our house, to a whole section of postcards featuring churches, the Pope, or Jesus himself, I had to laugh when postcard 282 showed back up in my mailbox. Thank you to Henry for finding Edith Wharton’s “Roman Fever and Other Stories” in Denver and sending the postcard back - I hope you enjoyed the book! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/677f48f4af299c792dba33ed/4a61b4db-f8fa-4236-b9d6-e32a82335a75/PopeJP2+-+written+side.JPG Blog - Found: Roman Fever & Other Stories - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.betsysbooks.com/blog/found-a-girl-in-the-polka-dot-dress monthly 0.5 2025-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/677f48f4af299c792dba33ed/4783fce6-20c5-4ce1-bf13-023e0ea50440/IMG_0933.JPG Blog - Found: A Girl in the Polka Dot Dress - Two new postcards arrived in early February - the first is a postcard of Battery Park, NYC that has a picture of view-finders that look like they have faces on them, next to a face-less Statue of Liberty. The postcard was returned by Laurene of Billings, Montana - she found the book, “The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress” by Beryl Bainbridge. 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