3 days ago by Sharon Lippincott

Over the last few days I’ve read two memoirs back-to-back, Margaret Overton’s Good in a Crisis and Jonna Ivin’s Will Love For Crumbs. Both stories revolve around disastrous relationships with men. I was struck by the fact that although these two women had very different backgrounds and their stories ...

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16 days ago by Grace & Beauty

Self-disclosure is healthy for this whole "blogging" environment, right? The outfit I wore yesterday. Yesterday, I merrily pranced around town, running errands after class. I was sporting an outfit that I quite like, and on top of everything, yesterday was my weekly weigh-in. I've lost 8 pounds over ...

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38 days ago by tfoxlaw

The holiday season is past and many of us have returned to work. However, if you are a Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) there is a gift that you may wish to give yourself, it is “ T he Whistleblower’s Handbook – A Step-by-Step Guide to Doing What’s Right and Protecting Yourself” authored by Stephen Ma ...

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68 days ago by Ciarán

Interesting new study in Computers in Human Behaviour about students and Facebook. All the research seems to be heading this way. The purpose of the current study was to extend existing research examining the specific motives for creating and maintaining Facebook, and to connect these motives to use ...

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70 days ago by Rae

Junk food rarely makes its way into my kitchen. However, I wanted to try these limited edition peppermint Oreos and bought them as a small present to myself. They are perfectly minty and I look forward to using them in some fun dessert recipes this winter. They also were a mood lifter after the emot ...

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82 days ago by Stephen Wang

Do you cry in public? Do you cry in front of The X Factor or Downton Abbey when the emotion gets just a bit too overwhelming? Remember that Hilary Clinton’s fight-back in the 2008 Primaries came, not when she started fighting, but when she started crying about how difficult things were in a downtown ...

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97 days ago by Moristotle

In Frank Rich's October 27 review of Brian Kellow's new biography ( A Life in the Dark) of movie critic Pauline Kael (1919-2001) (" Roaring at the Screen with Pauline Kael"), he refers to Kael's "self-dramatizing contrarianism" and writes that she should have gotten out while the getting was good, b ...

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103 days ago by Robin Easton

I used to feel awkward and out of place when meeting many new people because it seemed like whenever people met each other for the first time they would exchange names, talk surface small talk, and inevitably ask what they did for a living. But rarely did people REALLY talk about themselves. Related ...

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116 days ago by Sharon Lippincott

I’ve done things in my life that I’m not proud of, and I’ve never told anyone about them. Do I have to write about those things in my lifestory? I just read a memoir that left me with my mouth hanging open. I almost quit reading because of all the talk about sex, drugs and other stuff. Even if I’d l ...

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122 days ago by Sharon Lippincott

Last weekend at a panel discussion on various forms of electronic publishing, someone in the audience mentioned that the number of publishers listed as accepting fiction submissions in the current edition of Writer’s Market has shrunk dramatically from previous years. “Only a handful are interested, ...

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