Category: RABBIT TRAILS

Everyone tells me to be serious As a quick, emergency measure, I have always known I could bite my tongue or the inside of my cheek. A sufficient amount of pain would usually do the trick for me. But recently I am finding more and more craziness at which to laugh (inappropriately I might add.) My last few trips to the dentist have found me being scolded by them for what they consider to be self-abuse.…

Don Martin Hello, and good afternoon! Yes, I am still struggling with this letter. This will come as a surprise and a shock to many of you, especially those of you who know me personally, but I have no clue what I am doing here. We had a semi-rough week last week in which we got beat up a bit by social media. They all decreased our numbers of followers, our ability to joke and…

There are going to be a couple of people checking out this website today, since I’ve been working on it. They probably want to see some fresh journalism. I admit I’ve been spending way too much of my time for more that a year now chasing my tail without catching it, shooting at a goal that moved from time to time. And I guess I was annoyed more by that than I should have been.…

The vegetable, not the magician. At the beginning of the year, I was trying to discover who I was as a Medium writer and explain it to you as 5 or 6 medium readers. This is what I wrote at the time. My Sense of Humor Defined Is that some kind of joke? medium.com It turns out that a lot of people have recommended to me that I lose the humor. But this particular story has…

Not long ago, I wrote that my impostor syndrome as a writer could beat your impostor syndrome. Here Previously, I talked about my Impostor Syndrome here and here and in the beginning here. In my quixotic search for the cause of my health condition, I have discovered the final frontier of impostorism. Why is a diagnosis so elusive? I am not the only impostor here. We all may be impostors at some level. We all have doubts and uncertainties. We all…