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Beth Gross

How to Cope with Ambiguous Loss: Closing our Bookstore

Every culture has traditions and rituals when someone dies, such as funerals, memorials, and gravestones. In a sense, we have a structure…

May 29, 2020

How to Cope with Ambiguous Loss: Closing our Bookstore

May 29, 2020

9 Surprising Benefits of Bibliotherapy

Let’s say you’re feeling depressed. What benefits of bibliotherapy could help? You could start sleeping better, increase your dopamine…

May 19, 2020

9 Surprising Benefits of Bibliotherapy

May 19, 2020

What Are You Looking For In Good Books?

Life’s too short to read books you don’t love.

Apr 17, 2020

What Are You Looking For In Good Books?

Apr 17, 2020

6 Ways Reading Lowers Stress

Reading is my survival strategy.

Apr 10, 2020

6 Ways Reading Lowers Stress

Apr 10, 2020

Are you knee deep or neck deep in culture (and why does it matter?)

When we first moved to Mexico, our toddler son was social and verbal — in English. One Sunday morning when he was close to two we visited…

Dec 1, 2019

Are you knee deep or neck deep in culture (and why does it matter?)

Dec 1, 2019

Four Things I Learned in 10 Years as a Bookseller

A woman walks into our bookstore. She’s looking for a book on grief for a friend who just lost her husband. I direct her to our small…

Oct 20, 2019

Four Things I Learned in 10 Years as a Bookseller

Oct 20, 2019

When the world stopped spinning I got dizzy

“I grew up transient, with change as my constant. I lived a privileged life in many ways, and benefited from a plethora of experiences…

Jul 23, 2018

When the world stopped spinning I got dizzy

Jul 23, 2018

Hope for the nomad

The sun filters through the leaves of the trees.

May 1, 2018

Hope for the nomad

May 1, 2018

When You Find it Hard to Leave

The sun filters through the leaves of the trees.

Apr 30, 2018

When You Find it Hard to Leave

Apr 30, 2018

The Power of Story

I believe with every fiber that story is one of the most powerful teaching tools, and probably the most underutilized.

Apr 7, 2018

The Power of Story

Apr 7, 2018

Beth Gross

Beth Gross

After 18 years at home with four small humans, Beth spent 10 years as a bookseller. Now she reads to her grandkids and blogs at Smart Mamas Read.

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