April 2011
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Every Thursday, I have an impulse to start a...
About a year ago, I gave serious thought to starting a blog called “If It’s Thursday, This Must Be Bulls**t [IITTMBB].” It was going to center around pulling the 10 most pretentious quotes or things out of the New York Times’ 2 Thursday sections: “Home” and “ThursdayStyles.” I didn’t start the blog, but every Thursday I still can’t help...
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I don't blame Gov. Cuomo
for claiming to be from my town, Mount Kisco. Much better restaurants than Chappaqua. http://nyti.ms/dS5RdI
I found out from the Times article “Hometown of Cuomo? It Depends” that he and Sandra Lee live within walking distance of my house (albeit in a much different neighborhood, with a police guard stationed at the foot of their winding driveway), and that Mount Kisco is now 30%...
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Is community building weighing authors down? →
Alarms are starting to sound about the demands on writers
If you’re a serious writer and you’re not following Laura Miller’s writing at Salon.com The New Yorker, and at the New York Times,…
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Proof that good girls finish last!
Enjoyed Katherine Bouton’s NYTimes review of THE LONGEVITY PROJECT and the study’s fascinating conclusions. Bouton does a good job of telling you a lot about the book and the authors, but still encourages you to read the whole book (now that’s a good book review).
Most people assume biology is the critical factor in longevity. Or maybe outlook: if you’re cheerful, optimistic, happy, exercise a lot...
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Laura-e-Kelly.com
I finally found time between helping authors with their websites to update my own, in anticipation of launching my author consulting business: Laura-e-Kelly, Your Compleat E-Partner. (I decided to go with the fact that I had to use the lousy -e- in the middle of my name to get a .com URL even remotely related to my name. It’s just too common of a name.) My old site was teal and brown; I...
