Late last summer, I got email from the publisher Gale. They wanted to license my Wise Bread article Bankruptcy is a Good Thing to use in their book Bankruptcy (Introducing Issues With Opposing Viewpoints). They have a whole series of “introducing issues with opposing viewpoints” books, each of which contains a variety of articles and essays on [...]
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Kind mentions from Lifehacker and Planet Green!
My Wise Bread post Buy Your Groceries European-Style picked up mentions at both the Discovery Channel’s Planet Green and Lifehacker. Jason Fitzpatrick had kind words for my post in his piece Shop European-Style for Fresher, Cheaper Food. Lloyd Alter was especially generous, saying (in a green-living piece subtitled “I thought I was a lonely failure as a frugalista, [...]
Mentioned by Doctor Oz
Two of my Wise Bread posts, The Ethics of Hoarding and Healthy, Frugal Eating, got very kind mentions in the Doctor Oz blog: Wow. Just a stellar post… Philip Brewer strikes again with a straightforward, no-bull piece on why we gotta suck it up and stop eating expensive crap. Stern, but informative! I find it surprisingly difficult to extract [...]
Mentioned on Planet Green
My Wise Bread post Have Style, Not a Lifestyle was featured on the Discovery Channel’s Planet Green. Here’s the gist of what I had to say: The key to resisting the Diderot effect is to have style. Not just any old style, but a particular style. Something nicer than everything else you own isn’t in keeping [...]
Guest post at Self Reliance Exchange
I was invited to write a guest post for Self Reliance Exchange and was pleased to give them Find Your Self-Sufficient Sweet Spot. There’s a reason we don’t see more self-sufficiency: It’s not frugal. It almost always takes more time to make something than it takes to earn enough money to buy one—and that’s without [...]
Made a “best of” list!
My story “An Education of Scars” made the Best New Stories of 2009 at Free SF Reader, which gave it a rating of 4 out of 5. Since they didn’t give any “5 out of 5″ ratings last year, that puts my story pretty close to the top of the list.
Writing in 2009
I published one short story in 2009: “An Education of Scars” at Futurismic My story submission database isn’t really set up to answer the question of how many new stories I wrote this year, but I see three whose first submission to an editor was in 2009. Hopefully some of those will appear in 2010. [...]
Guest post at The Simple Dollar
A while back Trent Hamm at The Simple Dollar invited me to do a guest post and I finally came up with an idea that I liked: Living off Capital. People who come from wealthy families learn how to live off capital. The rules are taught along with all the other things they learn from [...]
Understanding Capital Costs up at US Airways
The reprint of my Wise Bread post Understanding Capital Costs is up at the US Airways Magazine site, in the section the Gist: Understanding Capital Costs.
Contributors copies of US Airways Magazine
US Airways Magazine is running my Wise Bread article Understand Capital Costs in their section “The Gist.” It appears on page 22 of the October 2009 issue. I got my contributors copies in the mail today. I’m not sure what day they actually change out the magazine onboard the planes, but I assume for the [...]
