When you write, are you focused on what you have to say, who you are, and getting those across on the page?

If so, and if you write for any kind of response — audience engagement, votes, purchases, calls to set up new accounts, whatever — you can probably bump…

Before I proceed to tick off a lot of people I agree with politically, while garnering attaboys from some folks I think are dead wrong about pretty much everything, there are three points I need to make clear.

First, I’m a liberal. …

I suppose every group has its quirks. And as long as they’re harmless, well, you gotta go along to get along, right?

But I have to admit, there are a few kinda odd things that Medium writers tend to do which, some days, drive me right up the wall. …

In the past two days I’ve read three articles here about the Rittenhouse trial, slamming the judge as biased because, among other sins, he has a “Trump rally song” as his ringtone, a phrase I’ve seen in various permutations in mainstream media headlines as well. …

I wish I’d bought the damn shoes. I had an extra fifty bucks on me because I couldn’t decide on some shoes before I had to get to work.

This was in Madrid back in the 1980s. I’d take the train out to Móstoles, a suburb on the outskirts where…

Humor

Plaintiffs’ Attorney: Please state your name.

Defendant: Yahweh

PA: Age?

D: Eternal

PA: Occupation?

D: Almighty God

PA: And you also go by the alias Heavenly Father?

D: Sure.

PA: Mr. Yahweh —

D: No mister.

PA: Beg pardon?

D: No “mister.” Just Yahweh.

PA: OK then, “Yahweh,” regarding complaint…

Years ago I heard of an experiment supposedly performed at the Yerkes Primate Research Center in Atlanta. What they did, so the story goes, was to put a scaffold in the chimpanzees’ rec room with an enormous bunch of grapes perched on top.

Apes, in case you are unaware, adore…

I’ve been seeing some gripes about “Keeper of the Place,” winner of the recent Medium Writers Challenge, but I hadn’t gotten around to reading the story itself until I came across Tessa Schlesinger’s grouse, saying how out of all the “writers and readers” she invited to evaluate it “not a…