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 [...]
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 [...]
Quoted about Clarion
Mishell Baker has an article up at the new Fantasy Magazine website on looking ahead to attending Clarion this year while pregnant, Cautiously Expecting: On Creating Life and Fiction at Clarion–which includes a couple of quotes from me, talking about my experiences at Clarion. She had emailed, asking for my thoughts. I responded and also [...]
Lifehacker on my “stuff” post
Cool! Lifehacker picked up my post Stuff will never make you organized, as Save Money by Organizing Before Purchasing Organizational Tools. Lifehacker links to posts by other Wise Bread writers pretty often, but I can’t remember the last time they linked to one of mine.
