Tag: Scott Beatty

  • The Puritan Crier

    When you wrote in a letter to my husbandthat our first child was a “blessing in disguise,”I walked miles through my neighborhoodpushing him in his strolleruntil the soles of my feetslapped the question on pavement:“In disguise of what?” He had copper curls spillingover widely spaced blue eyes now grown green like my father’s.A single gene changed…

  • Semiotics: Why I Went to the Wrong College and Stayed

    In the summer of 1989, approximately six months after Pam Am Flight 103 exploded from a terrorist’s bomb over Lockerbie, Scotland, with 270 people perishing—including 35 college students who were traveling home from studying abroad—my frightened parents hugged and kissed me goodbye in the parking lot of Juniata College, knowing that within a week I…