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Your Mission to Read, If You Choose to Accept

April 25, 2011
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With everything we have available to read, I’m amazed that we can have conversations with each other about books and articles. I can see someone reading a book on the subway and recognize it. Authors can fill large lecture halls with people who have read their books. A hundred years from now, maybe no one will be talking about these authors.

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The Results of Too Shy Twenty Ten

January 26, 2010
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To be honest, donating money to the National Endowment for the Arts seems petty when Haiti really needs our help. However, I announced this promotion before the earthquake, and I promised participants that money would be donated to a specific organization. On December 25th, I launched Too Shy Twenty Ten.

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Fewer Sexy Librarians, More Talented Ones

January 5, 2010
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A Google image search for “librarians” yields many photographs of sexy bookworms. But where are the quiet ones who catalog the web? The Internet is a living and breathing creature of creativity and craft. So, who are the people feeling the Internet’s breath on their necks?

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If You Think Too Shy Twenty Ten Is “Puzzling”

December 17, 2009
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If I could, I would help every struggling arts organization. I can think of two or three in New Jersey that would be delighted to receive a small contribution too! However, Too Shy to Stop’s readers and contributors are from all over the country and have many different interests in the arts.

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Letting Go to Grow Artistically

November 16, 2009
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Over the weekend, I had the pleasure of reading Happyloo: Friends, Foes, and Fun by my friend Mark Mariano. A colorful and playful comic book filled with characters like Tickle, a friendly turtle, and Meatsauce, a gentle yet dim-witted bulldog who loves food, Happyloo first ran on Mark’s website from June 25, 2008 to January 19, 2009.

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