Eco-luxe. Eco-plus. It doesn’t have to be all deprivation and short showers. You can be ecologically minded and eco-friendly and also luxurious. In fact (sigh), sometimes it seems like the more money you have, the more sustainable you can be. With all the money in the world, after all, it’s easy to off-set your carbon emissions by planting trees. You…
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On How Painful Revising Your Writing Can Be
“I’m in a terrible place with the revisions,” an accomplished and well-published writer friend wrote to me. “After a few hours today, I’m feeling really depressed and incapable.” Even if you love to revise (and I have writerly friends who really love this process), revising your writing can be painful. So painful, in fact, that revising your writing actually hurts….
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Bankruptcy lawyers cash in: my new article in Oregon Business Magazine
In a down economy lawyers who practice bankruptcy, insolvency, and other kinds of financial law see an upswing in business.
Read Beth Terry’s Recap of BlogHer2010
I took my 9-month-old daughter and 6-year-old son to New York City during the first week of August to attend BlogHer. (To see a photo gallery of our trip, scroll to the bottom of this post click here.) I wish I could feel as optimistic and enthusiastic about BlogHer as Beth Terry, who writes the very thoughtful and wonderful environmental blog,…
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The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
I’m not sure how I managed to earn a Ph.D. in English without ever reading Wilkie Collins’s book, The Woman in White (1859). I’m not sure how I became a Dickens fanatic without ever even learning about Wilkie Collins, who was 12 years younger than Dickens and who published often in the journals Dickens edited. The Woman in White is…
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BlogHer? Yes! Conference Swag? I’m Just Saying No Thank You…
The BlogHer conference at the Hilton on 6th Avenue and 53rd Street is just one week away. I’m going to the BlogHer conference but I’m avoiding all the conference swag. I was crushed when I was wait-listed to be a volunteer and elated when a spot opened up. I’ll be working at the registration desk on both Friday and Saturday mornings….
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