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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…

8 min readMay 29, 2020

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How to Cope with Ambiguous Loss: Closing our Bookstore

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Beth Gross

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…

11 min readMay 19, 2020

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9 Surprising Benefits of Bibliotherapy

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Beth Gross

What Are You Looking For In Good Books?

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

5 min readApr 17, 2020

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What Are You Looking For In Good Books?

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Beth Gross

6 Ways Reading Lowers Stress

Reading is my survival strategy.

5 min readApr 10, 2020

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6 Ways Reading Lowers Stress

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Beth Gross

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…

5 min readDec 1, 2019

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

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Beth Gross

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…

4 min readOct 20, 2019

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Four Things I Learned in 10 Years as a Bookseller

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Beth Gross

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…

3 min readJul 23, 2018

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When the world stopped spinning I got dizzy

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Beth Gross

Hope for the nomad

The sun filters through the leaves of the trees.

2 min readMay 1, 2018

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Hope for the nomad

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Beth Gross

When You Find it Hard to Leave

The sun filters through the leaves of the trees.

2 min readApr 30, 2018

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When You Find it Hard to Leave

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Beth Gross

The Power of Story

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

1 min readApr 7, 2018

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The Power of Story

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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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