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How to stay sane under stress: magazine editor and perpetual optimist Betsy Carter shares the secret strategies that have helped her overcome numerous obstacles. (On My Mind).(Brief Article)
* You should take my advice when it comes to bad luck. I've had plenty. Over a span of seven years, disasters of every sort rained down on me: fire, car crash, divorce, cancer--you name it. It got so bad that my mother would caution me before I went out on a date: "Don't tell him everything at once." When I meet people who have read my recently published memoir, Nothing to Fall Back On, they often ask me, in a grave voice usually reserved for the critically ill, "How are you?" I'm fine, thank you, and a little wiser about hanging on to my sanity when the worst that can happen does.
My dark streak started on a snowy February day in 1983, when the taxicab I was riding in plowed into another ear, breaking my jaw and knocking out most of my teeth. It took several rounds of reconstructive surgery and nearly a year of not looking in the mirror to recover. Three years after the car accident, coincidentally on another snowy February day, my husband of 17 years told me that he had discovered he was gay.
Some people keep personal disasters a secret, particularly when they involve the sexual orientation of their spouse. Not me. I tend to blurt things out when the news is bad. The worse it is, the more graphic I get. It blunts the scariness of whatever has happened and takes it out of the realm of the secret and into the light of reality. So I immediately called everyone I knew and told them the news. During the early days after my divorce, I couldn't imagine how I would get through it. When I admitted this to friend, she said, "Well, you've gotten through the first 36 hours. Nothing else will be as hard." After that, each hour seemed like progress, and each week like a miracle. Reaching out to a friend and taking her advice to heart was a lifesaver. By the time my country house burned down six months later, I had gotten good at putting one foot in front of ...
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- Magazine article from: O, The Oprah Magazine Medwick, Cathleen August 1, 2002 700+ words
IF YOU EVER MEET BETSY CARTER, you might want to duck for cover--and then give her a big hug...the much admired eighties magazine, and now author of Nothing to Fall Back On: The Life and Times of a Perpetual Optimist (Hyperion), frankly...
- K-III NAMES BETSY CARTER AS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF NEW WOMAN MAGAZINE
- Press release article from: PR Newswire July 13, 1994 700+ words
...CEO of K-III Magazines, announced that magazine veteran Betsy Carter has been named Editor-in-Chief of New Woman, one of...magazines including Marie Claire. "We're delighted to have Betsy Carter join us at K-III Magazines. No other editor is as qualified...
- ...BUT BLYTH DISLIKES BETSY CARTER'S "NEW YORK" MAGAZINE REBUTTAL.(Brief...
- Newspaper article from: Media Industry Newsletter March 22, 2004 700+ words
...Blyth, like her, "is writing fiction, [but] of a different sort." * That is probably why Blyth's reaction is, "Betsy Carter wrote a nice self-review that told as much about her as me." Says Carter to min, "I said what I had to say." [Copyright...
- New Woman's new woman.(editor-in-chief Betsy Carter)(Interview)
- Magazine article from: Folio: the Magazine for Magazine Management Calvacca, Lorraine October 1, 1995 700+ words
Upon learning that a media buyer has described her as "a celebrity editor," New Woman editor in chief Betsy Carter laughs. "I can't tell you how I don't feel like one," she says. "I'm not a big party animal." The 50-year-old...
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- Newspaper article from: The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, Fla.) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) July 20, 2005 700+ words
...looking for a new beginning, each making the move from the dreary Midwest to sunny Florida with shoes on the wrong feet. But Betsy Carter sidesteps stereotypes in her warm-hearted first novel, ``The Orange Blossom Special'' (Algonquin, $23.95) in...
- ...AND "MY GENERATION'S" BETSY CARTER "GOES FORWARD".
- Newspaper article from: Media Industry Newsletter October 22, 2001 700+ words
The veteran editor-in-chief, in her first year with the Modern Maturity spinoff, writes (Nov./Dec.) of blending normalcy "while learning to cope with a world that may never seem the same." In Carter's words: In the days after the tragedy, strangers found time to talk with one another--even if it
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- Magazine article from: Good Housekeeping Carter, Betsy January 1, 2005 700+ words
her blond hair was neatly combed, and her crisp blue suit was the color of optimism. Dina McGreevey stood by her man, New Jersey Governor James McGreevey, during his now famous press conference on August 12, 2004. As Governor McGreevey declared "I am a gay American," his wife peered up at him with
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- Magazine article from: O, The Oprah Magazine Carter, Betsy November 1, 2004 700+ words
ONE AFTERNOON WHEN I WAS BARELY 6, I was watching my favorite television show, Rootie Kazootie. As the credits rolled at the end of the half hour, an adult voice came on and said that we had just seen the end of poor Rootie; the show had been canceled. Devastated, I locked myself in the closet
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