Bethany Bengtson | bethany@myvoiceisstrong.com | 29 posts
Bethany, Founder & Editor of My Voice is Strong, started writing as a geeky teen, loves Gossip Girl and listens to Taylor Swift and Kanye West religiously.
When I was a ballerina, I always imagined I was a #7. Like if there were 20 dancers in my class, I was only 7th best. Even though I was praised by my teachers and ballet mistress for working the hardest out of all of my peers, even though I worked out in between rehearsals [...]
March 18, 2012
I told him, "I love you." He squeezed my hand. And it hurt. "It takes me a long time," he said, more to the ceiling than me. I knew he wasn't going to say it back. That's the part when I usually run.
November 13, 2011
and to all of you reading this who are not my ex boyfriend, I wanted to clear the air and get something straight with you. It occurred to me recently that I’ve done some ex bashing here. I’ve shared a lot of things that aren’t shared except in trusted, intimate conversations between girlfriends, usually over [...]
September 10, 2011
I deactivated my Facebook account. I know. Social media suicide. There was a time when I could not imagine what I would do if I lost everything on Facebook. All of my friendly banter back and forth between my camp girls, the amazing Kanye videos friends posted to my Wall, my Bookshelf, the awesome quotes [...]
August 29, 2011
Hi all! As I am not on Facebook anymore, I just wanted to let you know I survived Hurricane (what became Tropical Storm) Irene safe and well. I am pretty lucky. I live in the middle of Manhattan, on a high level street, in an apartment squashed between 4 other apartment buildings, surrounded by several [...]
June 18, 2011
I’ve tried writing book reviews, product reviews and music reviews on MVIS in the past, and it’s never been super successful. It’s probably because you come to this blog because I write what I think, I spill my guts and don’t apologize for it (most of the time) and because I make you think. Most [...]
June 15, 2011
Today I celebrate living in NYC for exactly 1 year. Anniversaries in NYC are kind of a big deal because so many people come and go, staying on couches, running up bar tabs and then they disappear back to where they came from. You start to get respect the longer you stay in NYC. Before [...]
May 5, 2011
My dad says the best invention ever made was the human brain’s Forgeterator. “You see,” my dad would say, “the forgetorator is supposed to make you forget your stories – the ones that have shaped you, for better or worse; the ones that make you think sad things and make you afraid to live.” I [...]
March 9, 2011
I saw a little girl and an old woman get in a fight on the subway yesterday. Not a fist fight, thankfully, but a knock-down, drag-out verbal altercation. I was on my way home from work at the Union Square subway station – a busy, crowded stop where it feels more like a stampede of [...]
January 21, 2011
When my high school sweetheart-turned-hoped-for-fiance broke my heart a few years ago, I resolved that I had been given a second chance at a big life. The life he had offered promised to teach me contentment, comfort and satisfaction with a complacent existence full of simple little wonders. But when I got the chance to [...]
May 5, 2012
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