Losing My "g+1"'s
It all started when I stopped getting "g+1" on my blog posts. For quite a while everything I wrote had this symbol pop up on it. I didn't know what it stood for but I figured it was something good. I got used to seeing it after every post, even the ones I thought were average ("See Jesus in Toast? You're Not Hallucinating"). But all of a sudden, they stopped. Had my writing declined? Was there only one person out there stamping my posts with the graphic and now he/she's stopped reading them? Or, worst of all, was I now boring the "g+1"ers? I try to keep my posts interesting and up to date, and well, kind of out there, like "Avoid Breast Cancer. Don't Pump Gas," and one of my favorites, "Married and Depressed? There May Be A Connection." But suddenly it's seeming I'm not quite the good read I once was. Then I saw Bruce Feller's essay in The New York Times, "For the Love of Being ' Like...