Sitemap - 2024 - I'd Rather Be Writing
How Pathetic Racists Can't Decide If They Want Immigrants to Stay or Go
How a Stomach Problem Tormented my Puppy, and the Vet Refused to See Him
BBF 20. How Winning Doesn't Matter and What You Learn from Doing Hard Things
Reflections on Growing up and the Experience of Holidays in a Small Town
How We're Going to Help People Overcome Destructive Media Lies in 2025
How A Bar Fight in College Changed My Perspective on People and the World
How Painting Provides Critical Inspiration That Can Carry Over to Your Writing
We've All Awakened to Discover We Don't Live in the World We Thought We Did
Selfish Billionaires are the Problem and Americans are Too Blind to See It
How to Survive Four More Miserable Years of Hate and Chaos
BBF 19. How the Climbs of the Birkie Trail Will Keep You Humble and Hungry
8 Cruel Lessons from a Year of Content Writing
How My Wife Remembers Growing Up in Peru During the Era of Terrorism
If Billionaires Were Going to Help Us, Then Why Haven't They Done So Already?
Why I’m Grateful to my Daughters For Creating Another Snow Day Miracle
Why You Better Try to Enjoy Your Last Christmas in a Free Country
Celebrating Christmas in Times of Struggle
How "The God Problem" Is at the Heart of All Human Suffering
How a Neighbor Probably Saved my Puppy's Life with a Thoughtful Suggestion
You Can’t Claim I’m The Problem Because None of My Ideas Are Ever Implemented
How Writers Should Plan to Leverage the Advantages of Medium in 2025
How Humanity Has Failed to Address the Threat of Constant Misinformation
How to Survive in This Hateful, Racist, Misogynistic, Homophobic, Broken, and Divided Country
How Memories of a Family Trip Can Provide Comfort in Uncertain Times
BBF 18. How My Grandpa Used to Horrify Us with Stories from World War II
How Highway Games Can Evolve into Road Rage and Put Your Family in Danger
How the Holiday Season Has Been Tainted by the Tragic Decline of America
How Wonder and Conflict Distort my Memories of the Annual Cutting of the Tree
I Really Wish AOC Had Been Named the Top Democrat on the Oversight Committee
How to Overcome Frustration and Look for Common Sense Solutions
How "The God Problem" Is at the Heart of All Human Suffering
Why More People Need to Speak Out Against the Evil of Mass Deportation
How You Can Fight Anxiety by Writing and Reaching out to Your Community
BBF 17. Absurd and Glorious Quests We Used to Make Chasing Snow in the Early Season
How Working Class Americans Are About to Be Abandoned and Thrown to the Wolves
How My Puppy Kept Me On the Toes By Completely Covering the Kitchen in Glitter
Why It's Time to Ghost or Escape Your Toxic Conservative or Republican Spouse
How the Patriarchy Destroyed the Traditional American Nuclear Family
Hate Rhetoric Directed at Immigrants Is an Affront to Humanity
Why Should Only School Kids Have To Deal with Active Shooter Drills?
How Giving Up Christmas with my Toxic Family Was the Best Decision Ever
We've All Awakened to Discover We Don't Live in the World We Thought We Did
My Healthcare and My Doctor Don't Care if I Live or I Die
How to Support Writers Without Actually Having to Pay or Sponsor Them
BBF 16. On Waxing and the Bench I Made From a Prehistoric Piece of Lumber
How Patriarchal Models Waste Resources by Suppressing Talented People
8 Cruel Lessons From a Year of Content Writing
How Ignorance Is the Enemy that Threatens Our Children's Right to Prosperity
Nobody Should Be Persecuted Because of the People They Choose To Love
How It's Triggering to See Narcissism Normalized in the United States
How The Dog Realized He was Taller Than the Fence and Made a Fool of Me
How to Survive Four More Miserable Years of Hate and Chaos
How to Use Platforms to Build Communities in Search of Greater Truth
How I Learned the Secret to Happiness at a 50 Year Wedding Anniversary
How Wonder and Conflict Distort my Memories of the Annual Cutting of the Tree
BBF 15. How the Summer Bicycle Racing Scene in Wisconsin Used to Be a Blast
Forces Are Hard at Work to Invalidate Democratic Votes
What We Can Expect in the Near Future Within the World of Writing
How Christianity Contrived to Bring Authoritarianism to America
How to Embrace the Power of Living in Your Present Moment
How To Get All Your Important and Professional Writing Questions Resolved
How to Resist the Hate Ideology That Threatens to Overtake Our Society
How as a Beloved Christmas Movie, ‘Violent Night’ Isn’t ‘Die Hard,’ It’s ‘Home Alone’
BBF Chapter 14. How Skiing Helped Me Gain the Self-Confidence to Return to College
How Linear Models Are Designed to Trick You Into Making Bad Decisions
How We Must All Transform Ourselves into Defiant Champions of Truth
How My Wonderful Readers Made Me a Bestseller and What's Coming Up in December
How Sad It Is to See People Compelled by the Seductive Power Of Hate
How You Appreciate a Quiet Midwestern Town and Neighbors at a Distance
How the Media Fails Us by Prematurely Dismissing Ideas as Conspiracy Theories
How Taking My Family Out to Breakfast Is the Greatest Joy in Life
How Thanksgiving Inspired Me to Cut Toxic and Abusive People Out of my Life
How Billionaires Destroy our Lives by Censoring Truth and Promoting Lies
How My Daughter and Her Friends Created Such Joy for her Birthday Party
Why You Deserve a Thanksgiving Free from Hate, Racism, and Misogyny
Why the White Supremacist Hate Mandate Is Destined to Fail
How Sad It Is to See People Compelled by the Seductive Power Of Hate
How to Educate Yourself in a World that Doesn't Value Education
How Humanity Has Failed to Address the Threat of Constant Misinformation
How America Created a Mandate for Its Current Horrific System of Abuse
How Writers Must Demand Access to Superior Editing Tools
BBF Chapter 13. The Aftermath of the Great Race and the Return to Miserable Reality
How the Illusion of Denial Will Never Save You From Accountability
How People Become Destructive When They Feel They've Been Left Behind
How My Last Great Adventure in Peru Was Hiking the Inca Trail With Two Olympians
Welcome to the United States of Hate—Why Did We Do This?
How Moving Abroad Made Me Feel as if I Had Access to an Ocean of Time
BBF Chapter 12. How it Feels to Ski the American Birkebeiner
How to Best Make Your Voice Heard in These Uncertain Times
Why I'm Advising My Children to Plan on Leaving the United States
How My Kids Kept Me Awake All Night Releasing Mice From Live Traps
BBF Chapter 11. How America's Greatest Ski Race Is Organized
How I Learned the Secret to Happiness at a 50 Year Wedding Anniversary
How I'm Grateful to the Observer on the Roof at the Guest House in Peru
I Will Keep Writing Every Day Until They Come to Take Me Away
BBF Chapter 10. How I Joined a New Community and Found the Courage to Challenge Myself
How A Bar Fight in College Changed My Perspective on People and the World
How You Can Absolutely Move Away, Begin Again, and Transform Your World
Hate Rhetoric Directed at Immigrants Is an Affront to Humanity
BBF Chapter 9. How My Grandpa Made His Foreign Guests Fire Guns in the House
How 'Northern Exposure' Has Become My Source of Comfort in Dark Times
How I Found My Place in the World and Saved my Life by Moving Abroad
Have Your Questions Ready for Another Informative Video Chat Tomorrow!
How My Immigrant Wife Made it Through Her First Wisconsin Winter
How Dressing Up My Daughter as Chewbacca Made the Best Halloween Ever
How My Immigrant Wife Made it Through Her First Wisconsin Winter
How We're Going to Get Through This and Every Other Problem
No Matter What Happened in the Election, Character Still Matters to Me
No Matter What Happened in the Election, Character Still Matters to Me
3 Factors that Determine How Much Your Stories Earn on Medium
How We Must Empower Each Other To Spread Kindness No Matter What
What I Learned From Hosting My First Group Meeting for Writers on Zoom
How the Tremendous Cookie Catastrophe Became Fond Family Folklore
How People Are Fed a Bunch of Beautiful Promises That Lead Only to Misery
BBF Chapter 8. Training After Work and in the Throes of Misery
Your Fellow Americans Are Not Your Enemy, Misinformation Is Your Enemy
Your Fellow Americans Are Not Your Enemy, Misinformation Is Your Enemy
We Have to Teach People the Importance of Spreading a Message of Kindness
We Have to Teach People the Importance of Spreading a Message of Kindness
BBF Chapter 7. How I Almost Dumped a Million Dollar Backhoe Into a Ditch
How My Family Processed Our Grief and Fear for the Future This Morning
You Are Not Alone, You Have Allies, We Will Get Through This
Chapter 6. of 'Beyond Birkie Fever' a Novel that Offers a Reprieve From Election Stress
Relax and Rejoice Because She IS the Perfect Person for This Moment!
BBF Chapter 5. How Skiers Become Obsessed Over Their Equipment (I Was no Exception)
We Must All Speak Out Because the Corporate Media Does Not Represent Us
Their Philosophy Is a House of Cards So They Try to Ban the Wind
We Have Problems in Our Society That Only a Woman Can Solve
The Lies I Hear From Anti-Immigrant Racists I Thought Were My Friends
How America Accidentally Gave 20% of its Oil Reserves to the People it Was Trying to Murder
America Doesn't Have an Immigrant Problem, It has a White Supremacy Problem
BBF Chapter 4. How My Grandpa Horrified Two Skiers by Teaching Them How Not to Drive on Ice
Kamala Is Not Going to Lose This Election in the Courtroom—I'm Certain of That Much
Once You’re Down in a Rural Town You’re Never Getting Back Up
Why the Writing Life Requires You to Keep Calm and Stay Empowered
How Ignorant Rural People Maintain the Way for Fascists to Seize Power
How America Came to Canonize Predators and Criminalize Saints
BBF Chapter 3. How Foreign Visitors Helped Me Survive Growing up in a Rural Wasteland
Loser Republicans Are Always Worse Off Than They Were 4 Years Ago
How Republican Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Led to a Boy Spitting in My Daughter's Face At School
How To Unsubscribe From the Sections of a Newsletter You Don't Wish to Receive
So, What’s Your Argument For Supporting a Convicted Felon for President?
How Every Flawed Republican Argument Is a Thought Terminating Cliche
BBF Chapter 2: Learning How to Skate Ski on Classical Skis
Teaching Children Sportsmanship and Other Woke Values
Will the Insurrectionist Order a "Final Solution" for His Own "November Criminals?"
Keep Calm and Carry on America, Everything Is Going to be Fine
BBF Chapter 1. How The Frozen Landscape Nearly Claimed My Soul After my Mom Abandoned Me
How I'll Be Getting Back to My Mission of Helping to Promote Unique Voices
How Camping With Your Kids in the Yard Is the Best Night Ever
How My Daughter's Attachment to Her Pacifier Put My Family at Risk
5 Reasons Why the 2024 Election Will Not Be a Repeat of 2016
Why Is It That Lies Are Always Shouted and Truth Is Always Whispered?
Ask Yourself Why You Were Never Taught the Origin of Race Based Human Slavery
How The Princess Learned the Morals of the Past No Longer Apply to the Present
Republicans Use Racist, Offensive, and Immoral Slogans Like “Joe and the Hoe”
Once You’re Down in a Rural Town You’re Never Getting Back Up
How the Writing Life Is a Constant Exercise in Experimentation
Harris and Biden Have Built the Greatest Economy in American History
Harris and Biden Have Built the Greatest Economy in American History!
For Four Years, Republicans Have Argued that the Vice-President Picks the Winner
Why Republicans Can't Ever Be Trusted With the Economy
People Without Sin Wouldn’t Have Wanted to Cast the First Stone Anyway
The Philosophy of Evil Compels Oppressors to Dehumanize the Vulnerable
How a 100 Mile Bicycle Ride Can Take the Fight Out of a Guy
Christian Fascism Schools Indoctrinate Our Children With Their Authoritarian, Forced-Birth Agenda
How I Almost Got Arrested for a Federal Offense When I was 13
Public School Teachers Are Afraid to Teach That Biden Won the 2020 Election
How Substack Fits Into The Business Model of the Professional Writer
An Illustrated Guide to American Racism
I Saved Optimus Prime's Head From the Streets of Lima
Broke-Ass Ignorant Rural Voters Trust Conservatives on the Economy
What Kind of Writing Is Working on Medium Right Now?
White Supremacy Is Doomed To Crumble Under Its Own Weight
How My Wife's Car Broke Down and I Totally Fixed It Without Breaking Anything
A Free Country Requires a Free and Responsible Press
Stop Driving a Truck That’s Five Times Too Big For the Road
Your Wife Needs That Valentine’s Day Bouquet More Than You Know
Any Nation That Protects Bodily Autonomy for Women Is Better Than the US
From Zero to 10,000 Substack Subscribers in 6 Months!
I Wear My Kamala Harris Gear For the People Who Don't Feel Safe
I Remember the Shame of Witnessing My Peers Protest the Ojibwe
Listening to the Strategies of Gated Community Democrats Is a Sure Path to Disaster
Will the Insurrectionist Order a "Final Solution" for His Own "November Criminals?"
Unlocking the Secrets of Medium With Boost Nominator Robin Wilding
How ‘Stranger Things’ Exploits the Generational Trauma of ‘80s Kids
Their Philosophy Is a House of Cards So They Try to Ban the Wind
An Interview With Medium Boost Nominator Ben Ulansey
Every Entitled White Rural Farm Kid Is Trained to Be a Mass Shooter
For Me, the Joy of the Harris/Walz Campaign Is Driven by a Hope for Justice
How Ignorant Rural People Maintain the Way for Fascists to Seize Power
Why Writers Must Check the Data Before They Go into Emergency Panic Mode
Ask Yourself Why You Were Never Taught the Origin of Race Based Human Slavery
Using Primal Scream Therapy to Expel the Existential Poison of the Patriarchal Asshats
The Free Press is Dead, Billionaires Murdered it, Can Substack Save Us?
Conservatives Demand Respect for Themselves but Refuse to Offer it to Anyone Else
What's the John Lewis Act and Why Is It So Important?
Yesterday's Bizarre Encounter With Another GOP Racism Apologist
Medium's Partner Program Expansion and Best Practices for Substack
How Republican Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Led to a Boy Spitting in My Daughter's Face At School
How 9 Patriarchal Asshats Tried to Turn the Princess Into an Uncompensated House Servant
How to Make Your Voice Heard and Help Create a Better World
Why We Can't Be Tolerant of Racist Republican Slogans Like "Joe and the Hoe"
How Patriarchal Models Waste Resources by Suppressing Talented People
How I Was Maliciously Censored by Right Wing Media for Arguing That Women Should Be Leaders
It’s Cruel to Deceive a Child by Arguing the Merits of a Mercy Killing
An Honest Conversation about Medium's Boost
My Backstabbing Conservative Cousin who Fabricated a Claim of Voter Fraud
Republicans Resort to Violence to Stay in Power, Democrats Transfer Power Honorably
50 Writing Prompts To Ensure You Never Run Out of Ideas
Introducing Serials: The Zebra Unicorn
My Politics Put Your Kids In Danger. Why Aren’t We Still Friends?
An Example of the Anti-Patriarchal Fantasy Stories I Write for my Daughters
How to Grow a Following and Start Earning Money on Medium
How Building a Rocking Chair With My Daughter Became a Fond Memory
An Author With 1,000 Amazon Reviews Who Turned down a TV Option
What's New on Medium, Productivity Tips, and a Look at My Stats For June
The Lie That’s Taught as Truth in Rural America
Want to Get Medium’s Boost? Here’s a Checklist to Help You Out
The United States Has 3 Political Parties Disguised as 2
How I Succeeded in Giving My Medium Articles New Life on Substack
How Can I Quit My Job and Become a Full-Time Writer on Substack and Medium?
How 'Decolonized Journalism' Fits Into My Mission Statement of Elevating Voices
How Can You Be the Alpha Male When Another Man Is Raising Your Child?
What Does it Mean to Empower Progressive Writers?
My Doctor Doesn’t Care If I Live or I Die
How to Come Up With Personal Anecdotes to Write 20 Quality Articles a Month
The Perils of Teaching Your Children to Swim
An Illustrated Guide to How “Right Shift” is Destroying America
Why Your Success on Medium Depends on Getting to Know the Publication Editors
Camping With the Kids: The Best Night Ever
How America Accidentally Gave 20% of its Oil Reserves to the People it Was Trying to Murder
Why We Can’t Allow Writer Frustration to Become an Obstacle to Our Success
Why You Should be Wary of People Who Don't Swear
Why Standing For the National Anthem Is a Symbol of White Supremacy
Where Does Medium Fit In the Writing Marketplace?
I Can Think of Nothing More Republican Than Murdering a Puppy Because it Misbehaves
Tales From My Life in Peru: The Shaman
Using Substack's Notes For Growth and The Benefits of Political Content
How an Innocent Pocket Knife Can Cause a Lot of Trouble
How to Get the Most out of Medium's Boost Program
Why Your Kids Are Never Too Big For Hugs
When You Should Consider Enabling Paid Subscriptions
Is It Wrong to Dress Your Daughter as Chewbacca?
How Participating in a Community Is the Key to Finding Success as a Writer
How to Implement an Effective Growth Strategy for Medium
My Daughter's Favorite Pacifier
How to Supercharge Your Visibility by Maximizing Medium’s Publications
I’ll be Hosting a Booth at Medium’s Pub Crawl
Will Bullet Points Help Or Hurt Your Chances of Getting Medium's Boost?
February in Review, 10 Boosted Articles, and Kristina God’s Writing School
One From the Vault: A Quarter Past Cooked
3 Common Bad Practices That Will Ruin Your Ability to Succeed on Medium
Short Story: A Cornucopia of Coolant
I’m Looking for Anti-Racism Articles to Boost on Medium
Your Wife Needs That Valentine’s Day Bouquet More Than You Know
Why Your Articles Fail On Medium and How to Make Them Succeed
Writing About Writing Is More Lucrative than Writing
A High Read Ratio on Medium Can Be as Lucrative as a Boost
How to Best Leverage Comments to Grow Your Following
Why Is it So Hard to Get People to Sign Up for Medium?
When Writers Take a Leap of Faith It Puts Pressure on the Editor