Month: October 2012

social toxicity: the Twitter psychotic breakdown

It occurred to me this week that out of 250-something people I follow on Twitter, all but maybe 100 of them post content that makes me feel anxious and dysfunctional. How about that for inviting toxicity into my life? To reign in my work day, 

weekend reads: stories about death

Just Finished: The Opposite of Love, by Julie Buxbaum From Goodreads: When successful twenty-nine-year-old Manhattan attorney Emily Haxby ends her happy relationship just as her boyfriend is on the verge of proposing, she can’t explain to even her closest friends why she did it. Somewhere 

wordless wednesday: windmills in autumn

(Pennsylvania, iPhone, out the car window.)

reporting from the GMU self-publishing panel

I went to George Mason University’s Fall for the Book Festival, “Self-Publishing Panel” this weekend. The panelists were: Karen Cantwell, Matthew Iden, Scott Nicholson, Michael Sullivan, and moderator, Robin Sullivan. I took some notes and I’ll report everything I remember here. First off, they were