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About Me — Betsy Denson

It’s my inner life only that might make a good reality show

4 min readJan 8, 2021

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About Me — Betsy Denson

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Scrittura

Inyeon and the Blue Balloon

2nd Saturday prompt: movie inspiration

3 min readMar 23, 2024

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Inyeon and the Blue Balloon

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Smorgasbord of History

Florence Nightingale Was the OG Work Martyr and That’s Not Healthy

Millennials could learn a thing or two about the dangers of leaving it all at the office

6 min readMar 18, 2024

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Florence Nightingale in a hospital.

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MuddyUm

This Anaconda Don’t Want None Unless You Act Crazy Son

Just ask Jennifer Lopez or Ice Cube

4 min readMar 10, 2024

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Man swimming with a 26-foot anaconda

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The Glorious Grind

My Experience With the Flatlander’s Fear of All Things Mountain

Alpine anxiety is a thing y’all

5 min readMar 4, 2024

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My Experience With the Flatlander’s Fear of All Things Mountain

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Art Hi”STORY”

Erased from History for 100 Years, Bélizaire Was Reclaimed But Not Redeemed

The restoration of a 19th-century family portrait is a bittersweet triumph

5 min readFeb 20, 2024

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Bélizaire and the Frey Children, a painting attributed to Jacques Guillaume Lucein Amans

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Smorgasbord of History

Three Reasons Why Kids (and Everyone Else) Should Learn About The Tulsa Race Massacre

A visit to the Greenwood Rising Museum in Tulsa, OK was an eyeopener about the utter destruction of an entire community

7 min readFeb 8, 2024

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Three Reasons Why Kids (and Everyone Else) Should Learn About The Tulsa Race Massacre

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MuddyUm

May the Best Cicada Win — And Then Go Straight Back To Hell

Indiana and Illinois, you are ground zero for Armageddon

4 min readFeb 5, 2024

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A close up of a cicada with red eyes

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Smorgasbord of History

We Like People Who Get Away With Stuff, Just Ask D. B. Cooper — If You Can Find Him

And the other reasons we’re still fixated on a 50+ year-old hijacking

6 min readJan 29, 2024

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FBI 1971 Composite Sketch of DB Cooper

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Scrittura

May 18, 1980: 8:32 a.m.

2nd Saturday prompt — Mount Saint Helens

3 min readJan 23, 2024

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May 18, 1980: 8:32 a.m.

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Always looking for the interesting. Read an article from my pub (Smorgasbord of History) and put me on your short list for kidney donors.

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