I use social media for posting photos (never selfies) and cartoons (one every other week), links to articles I’ve published and occasional promotions of my book. As my late friend David Beaty used to say, “You have to do your fan dance.”
Yesterday Hania, who is not on social media, suggested I post about her birthday on Facebook. This rare personal post – that ran with a picture I took of Hania last year, petting a French bulldog in Charleston, SC – received a flood of likes and comments, many of them from people who hadn’t liked or commented on any post of mine in years, if ever. I was very touched, as was Hania, though I found myself wondering if the people whose names I rarely see find my creative work eminently unremarkable.
