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…

An update of stories, in case you missed any this last week, #50. Good morning! Welcome to the weekend update of the stories we published this last week and maybe some extra stuff. This article is complete and self-contained right here. Of course, it will be even more complete and even more self-contained in our newsletter, where it also will contain more items like your horoscope, a gossip column, movie reviews, a song video, classified advertisements, and…

An update of stories in case you missed any this last week, #49 Good morning! Welcome to the weekend update of the stories we published this last week and maybe some extra stuff. This article is complete and self-contained right here. Of course, it will be even more complete and even more self-contained in our newsletter, where it also will contain more items like your horoscope, a gossip column, movie reviews, a song video, classified advertisements, and…

Including the stuff you missed in week 44 Well, another week has slipped past us. We are grateful to have you here. Share us with your friends and family, if that doesn’t cause you to be ashamed of how you spend your time. Thanks! Remember to click that envelope do-hickey if you haven’t already. Week # 44 stories Sunday & Monday, week #44 Including the Game, the movie, and the newsletter schedule. medium.com Have Writers…