Des Moines, IA, USA
$400 - $720 / Day
Betsy Rubiner writes freelance stories and essays on travel, parenting, families and other topics for many publications including: REAL SIMPLE, New York Times, Parenting, The Guardian, Rails-to-Trails magazine, FamilyFun, Better Homes & Garden, TIME, Midwest Living, Delta Sky, Airbnb Magazine, WebMD, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, Everyday with Rachael Ray, Heart Healthy Living, Meredith Integrated Marketing and Special Interest Media as well as the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Detroit News, Austin Statesman, the Philadelphia Inquirer and Des Moines Register. She is the author of Fun with the Family in Iowa (Globe Pequot Press) and three of her travel stories are included in The New York Times 36 Hours: 150 weekends in the USA & Canada (Taschen, 2014 & 2011) TakeBetsyWithYou, her blog, offers travel thoughts, tips, and tales.
We needed strength. We needed sustenance. We were steeling ourselves to see 19 Democratic presidential candidates on a Sunday afternoon in June at a political event in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, that promised little food and lots of speeches. What better time for a Bleeding Heart Flatbread or the Inaugural Balls at a new restaurant paying homage to the first-in-the-nation presidential contest.
5 WAYS TO EXPAND YOUR SOCIAL CIRCLE In a friendship rut? A few expert ideas for meaningful ways to mingle with new people. 1) Grow by gardening. Community food gardens automatically give people two things to rejoice or complain about together: food and the weather.
Produced for The Guardian
After a job took her from Connecticut to Kansas, Betsy Rubiner has spent three decades in the midwest. But Trump’s presidency has exacerbated feelings of not quite belonging wherever she goes.
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