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How the Mindset of Rural Tribalism Has Held Me Back My Entire Life
How the Kids Are Told They're Not Good Enough to Keep Them Broken Down
Let's Just All Stop and Take a Deep Breath Today
Chasing Two Olympians up an Andean Pass Was an Exercise in Humility
How to Help Young People Navigate the Complexities of the Modern Business world
Mockery and Ridicule Are the Tools We Must Use to Defeat White Supremacy
How Our Activism Has Become a Rigged Game of Three-Card Monte
I Know the Torment of Growing Up in a Culture that Celebrates Ignorance
Here's Why I'm Pissed off At Democrats for Not Doing Enough
How My Daughter and I Got Attacked by a Bald Eagle on a River Trip
A Conversation That Feels Like a Violation
Thoughts and Prayers For the Children About to Be Stripped of Their Healthcare
Gatekeepers Are Gaslighting You
The Daily Whatever, June 28: What's Next with Wendy the Druid and Walter Rhein
The Waitress Isn’t “Into You,” It’s Her Job to be Nice
How To Make Yourself Useful Even When You're Just a Writer
Escapist Delights in a Crumbling Democracy w/ Lawrence Winnerman
How the Idea of "the Center" Is a Form of White Supremacy Indoctrination
Why You're Wrong If You Refuse to Describe Rapists and Human Traffickers as Evil
Managing Our Stressful Reality
How Love Provides Salvation for Those at the Mercy of the Tide
Any Swipe At Young People Is an Act of Fascist Authoritarianism
I Remember the Shame of Witnessing My Peers Protest the Ojibwe
Democrats Need to Grow a Fucking Spine!
The Passive Enablers of Fascism Are the Ones I Hate the Most
I Saw a Rural Teacher Throw a Student Down the Stairs
Remember How Everyone Celebrated When the Emperor In 'Star Wars' Died?
How Stealing a River Helped Me Teach My Daughter Important Life Lessons
What a Nuclear Engineer Has to Say About What's Really Going on in Iran
Every Entitled White Rural Farm Kid Is Trained to Be a Mass Shooter
What's Working On Medium and Substack in June of 2025?
Who Does Estrangement Hurt the Most?
I Will Cut People Out of My Life for Asking if My Wife Is Here Legally
Why You Should Never Feel Bad When You See Somebody Blocked You
How Powerless Resistance Reminds Bullies that the Universe Is a Witness
We Haven't Even Begun to Explore the Depths to Which the Political Right Will Descend
The Daily Whatever, Jun 20: Fucked-up Friday with Frederic Poag & Walter Rhein
Harris Lost Because Centrists Killed Build Back Better
How Your Innocence Can Become Your Armor When You're Willing to Give People a Chance
Escapist Delights in a Crumbling Democracy w/ Abby Paradis
How Abusive People Wield Control by Fusing Mistreatment with Identity
Why We Need to Talk About the Common Characteristics of the Enemy
Yawn, The President Is Threatening Us On Social Media Again
I Know Why Conservatives Get Their Toxic Brains Broken by the Transgender Community
Why the Most Powerful Thing You Can Do Right Now Is Change How You Think
Editing Won't Help You if You're Unable to Face Your Muse
What Democrats Have to Fix About Themselves If We're Ever Going to Defeat Fascism
I'm Tired of Cleaning Up After People Who Leave a Mess Behind
Reflections on Father's Day, the Unity of Protest, and Why Democrats Have to Fight Harder
What Conservatives Get Wrong When They Think of Themselves as Decent People
The Daily Whatever, Jun 14: No Kings Day news round-up with Frederic Poag & Walter Rhein
Yawn, The President Is Threatening Us On Social Media Again
Why Writers Must Embrace the Chaotic Nature of True Creation
Another Movie Chat Where We Try to Take a Break From Politics
Republicans Are Evil, the Left Is Non-Violent
How I Learned an Important Lesson Fixing an Old Truck with an Olympic Hopeful
What I Learned When I Worked Up the Courage to Check Why People Unsubscribe
Will They Try to Erase Indiana Jones Because He Makes Nazis, “Feel Bad About Themselves?”
Should a President Resign If it Was Determined That He Rigged An Election?
What Happens When the Fascist Regime Starts Importing Outside Agitators?
I'll Never Forget the Terror of Riding the School Bus
What People Who Live Down in a Hole Get Wrong About the Misery of Life
How Republicans Incite Violence Against Our Kids
A Reflection on Love and All the Things That We Cannot Control
The Celebration of Billionaires Dehumanizes the Rest of Us
The Most Chaotic and Hilarious Livestream on Substack
What Happens When the Fascist Regime Starts Importing Outside Agitators?
Why Do Republicans Feel They're Entitled to Non-Consensual Friendship?
Publishing Has Been an Exercise in Censorship for the Last 50 Years
As a Farm Kid I Developed a Trauma Bond With the Land
America Can't Continue to Silence the Innocent People Who Pay the Price For Our National Lies
What Toxic People Get Wrong When They Start Raging About Student Loans
How Book Signings Are Pretty Much Worthless for Unknown Writers
One of the Kids I Graduated With Was Beaten to Death
There Are Some Challenges to Stand and Face and Others You Must Escape
The Inadequate Representation for Educated Perspectives in Media
I Once Witnessed a Farmer Hit a Kid With His Pickup Truck
A Desperate Man, a Gorilla Costume, and a Fulvous Whistling-duck
The Nostalgia You Feel For a Time of Abuses Past Is Not Love
What I Learned When I Worked Up the Courage to Check Why People Unsubscribe
Jesus Didn't Take the Wheel, So Billionaires Gave Us Self-Driving Cars
Talking Movies, Bob Dylan, Kubrick, Horror, and Sailing Around the World
Once You're Down in a Rural Town You're Never Getting Back Up
Harris Lost Because 70 Million Americans Voted for Evil
If Being an Asshole Is Your Defining Personality Trait, Don't Pout When It's Thrown Back at You
Why You Must Stop Normalizing the Idea That the Midterms Will Be Canceled
How False Compliance Is the Best Form of Defiance
It's a Normalized Form of Abuse to Force Farm Kids to Operate Heavy Machinery
American Farmers Get By on Authoritarianism, Socialism and Child Labor
Why We're Going to Win and Why the Losers Will Continue to Lose
I Hope All My Readers Understand That It's My Great Privilege to Write For You
What's New On Medium, My Summer Reading List, and How to Save More Money
Our Society Is Now Officially the Opposite of "Woke"
Do Small Town Teachers Still Use Adhesive Tape to Silence Their Students?
Escapist Delights in a Crumbling Democracy w/ Brandon Ellrich
What the Left Can't Seem to Get Right in Its Fight Against Fascism
Why We Need to Take a Deeper Dive Into What's Happening in America Today
Why We Must Quit Ignoring Poverty in America
Why It's Pathetic that People Are Trained to Never Humiliate the Patriarch
Invisible Data Can Provide Insight Into Apparently Insurmountable Obstacles
How Joy Is Our Greatest Weapon as We Continue Our Fight Against Fascism
Racism Isn't learned, It's indoctrinated
How the Kids Are Told They're Not Good Enough to Keep Them Broken Down
How Sharing Your Artwork Forges a Connection That Brings People Peace
I'm So Lucky to Be the Father of Daughters
I Know the Torment of Growing Up in a Culture that Celebrates Ignorance
The First Step Towards Finding the Answers is Learning Not to Be Afraid
A Conversation That Feels Like a Violation
Are Establishment Democrats the Ones Actually Running the President?
Is Film an Insider's Club that Refuses to Offer True Poverty Representation?
How Cruel Rural Communities Ostracize the People They Don't Like
If I Taught You How to Save $1,000, Would You Sponsor My Newsletter?
As the World Burns, I Read Stories to My Children
Whelp, The GOP Passed the 'War On America' Bill
The Waitress Isn’t “Into You,” It’s Her Job to be Nice
From New York Stand-Up Comedian, to Published Author on Patreon
Why I Never Even Considered Asking My Wife to Take My Name
How the Idea of "the Center" Is a Form of White Supremacy Indoctrination
How to Leave the USA (Seriously)
Why Liberal Elites Need to Make Things Easier for Rural Liberals
How Love Provides Salvation for Those at the Mercy of the Tide
We Bring Magic into Our Lives Through Little Moments of Joy and Art
Whelp, The GOP Passed the 'War On America' Bill
I Saw a Rural Teacher Throw a Student Down the Stairs
Why Is It That America Fails to Celebrate People of Integrity?
Writing to Expectation Versus Writing From Inspiration
I Will Cut People Out of My Life for Asking if My Wife Is Here Legally
Dear MAGA, You're Not What You Think You Are and You Never Have Been
How Powerless Resistance Reminds Bullies that the Universe Is a Witness
The Billionaire MAGA Murder Bill Is Coming
'Violent Night' Isn't 'Die Hard,' It's 'Home Alone'
How to Break the Pull and the Control of a Cruel Patriarch
How Short Videos and Live Conversations Have Become Useful Growth Tools
What Everybody Gets Wrong About How Fast Your Life Can Change
What Everyone Gets Wrong About Growing Their Paid Newsletter
I'm So Sick of Delusional and Incompetent White Supremacists
Why Didn't You Leave Your Horrific Rural Town Earlier?
I'm Tired of Cleaning Up After People Who Leave a Mess Behind
Plead or Scream? What's the Best Way to Get Through to Indoctrinated Right-Wingers?
Mockery and Ridicule Are the Tools We Must Use to Defeat White Supremacy
Editing Won't Help You if You're Unable to Face Your Muse
Discussing Various Pathways to Publishing with Bestselling Author Libbie Grant
How The Republican Fixation on Punishment Will End up Destroying Us All
How Abusive People Wield Control by Fusing Mistreatment with Identity
How the Media Misrepresents Immigration and Ends Up Hurting Innocent People
Jealousy Is a Form of Control That Operates Through the Withholding of Love
I Know Why Conservatives Get Their Toxic Brains Broken by the Transgender Community
It's Not the End of America, We're Just Going Through a Divorce
The Daily Whatever, May 12: Medium in Memoriam with Walter Rhein & Patrick Stewart
How to Enhance Your Artwork to Create Interesting Featured Images
How to Understand and Influence the Red Rural Mind
The Lie That’s Taught as Truth in Rural America
Do I Really Have to Update My Profile Picture Every 15 Years?
How Building a Rocking Chair With My Daughter Became a Fond Memory
Happy Mother's Day To All the Wonderful People Out There Who Teach Us About Love and Compassion
My Wife Followed Me From Peru to Wisconsin and Almost Didn’t Survive
How My Wife Navigated the Traumatic Process of International Degree Accreditation
A Boisterous Discussion About Anime, Thunderbolts, The Iron Claw and a Kiss Concert
No, You Can't Sprint Past an Elite Marathoner
Why We Must Oppose the Extreme, Right-Wing, Supremacy Agenda
Navigating our Dystopian Reality and A Few Things to Be Hopeful About
Will They Try to Erase Indiana Jones Because He Makes Nazis, “Feel Bad About Themselves?”
I'm a US Citizen, Why Does My Own Country Hate Me?
I'll Never Forget the Terror of Riding the School Bus
How Important it Is for Writers to Manage the Zeitgeist of the Moment
How Six Months of Homelessness Can Change Your Perception of Reality
How the Evolution of Writing Might Lead to the Extinction of Gatekeepers
A Reflection on Love and All the Things That We Cannot Control
What Everyone Gets Wrong About the Toxic Think Tank of Old Money
How It's an Act of Violence to Force People to Listen to Prayer
America Can't Continue to Silence the Innocent People Who Pay the Price For Our National Lies
Solving America's Problems in Just a Little Over an Hour (Seriously)
How Rural Areas Rely on Bullies to Keep Decent People Marginalized and Afraid
What Are the Latest Trends in the World of Writing?
The Revenge of the Sith, South Park, and America the Motion Picture
How Your Impostor Syndrome Is Derived from a Toxic Supremacy Worldview
Why Left-Leaning People Are Awful When it Comes to Political Messaging
The Daily Whatever, May 1: Writers on writing
Relinquish Your Rage and Embrace Your Sense of Righteous Justice
One of the Kids I Graduated With Was Beaten to Death
What's the State of Immigration in America Today?
We Need More Novels that Emphasize the Basic Humanity of Immigrants
Why It's Pathetic that People Are Trained to Never Humiliate the Patriarch
How The US Legal System Doesn't Actually Protect Your Freedom
All Bigotry Is Ignorance, But Not All Ignorance Is Bigotry
I Once Witnessed a Farmer Hit a Kid With His Pickup Truck
What Rural Folk Don't Know About the Lie They Call a Life
How Your Impostor Syndrome Is Derived from a Toxic Supremacy Worldview
Politics, Activism, and Empathy—How to Build the World Our Children Deserve
How Titles Must Occupy the Fertile Space Between Content and Code
If Being an Asshole Is Your Defining Personality Trait, Don't Pout When It's Thrown Back at You
Why the Unaccomplished Misogynistic Frat Boy Mentality Is Doomed to Fail
A Message Also Must Achieve Herd Immunity
How Medium's Boost Program Helped Make Me a Better Writer
Why Your Childlike Curiosity Is the Key to Becoming a Compassionate Adult
I Don't Expect My Writer Friends to Read My Work
The Nostalgia You Feel For a Time of Abuses Past Is Not Love
How Can You Enjoy Superheroes When America No Longer Respects Justice?
Once You're Down in a Rural Town You're Never Getting Back Up
A Discussion on Writing, the Novel, and the Pathway to Publishing
How to Fix Everything That's Wrong With the F***ed Up USA
Our Society Is Now Officially the Opposite of "Woke"
Why You Should Choose to Meet a Murderer Instead of a Tyrant
What's Wrong With Writing and Demons and Women Dancing in the Night?
What the Left Can't Seem to Get Right in Its Fight Against Fascism
How Writers Are Like Wizards Who Send Magical Laughter into the Future
As Ignorant As Americans Are, They Still Mostly Understand that Nazis are Evil
Racism Isn't learned, It's Indoctrinated
How Our Society is Crumbling and What We Might do to Save It
There Is No Way to Survive a Dictatorship Other Than To Resist, Resist, Resist
The First Step Towards Finding the Answers is Learning Not to Be Afraid
The Lies I Hear From Anti-Immigrant Racists I Thought Were My Friends
It's a Normalized Form of Abuse to Force Farm Kids to Operate Heavy Machinery
I Hope All My Readers Understand That It's My Great Privilege to Write For You
How Cross-Country Skiing Prepares People for All the Challenges of Life
How Learning a Foreign Language Might Help You Overcome Depression
We Bring Magic into Our Lives Through Little Moments of Joy and Art
Tactics for Negotiating With a Malignant Narcissist
I Don't Want to End up in Prison in El Salvador
How Cruel Rural Communities Ostracize the People They Don't Like
How Growing Up at Sea Proved to Be a Life Altering Experience
People Don't Understand that Racism Is the Shame of Christianity
As the World Burns, I Read Stories to My Children
Escapist Delights in a Crumbling Democracy w/ Walter Rhein, Ben Ulansey, and Courtney Sender
How Everyone Comes Together to Experience the Joy and Adventure of a Race
Why I Never Even Considered Asking My Wife to Take My Name
How Our Activism for a Better Future Is Both Exhausting and Necessary
Wait a Minute, There are Conservatives Who Actually Think They're NOT Homophobic?
Publishing Has Been an Exercise in Censorship for the Last 50 Years
How the People Who Accuse Me Of Fearmongering Couldn't Be More Wrong
What Kind of an Example Do We Set When We Force Our Kids to Endure This President?
I Don't Want to End up in Prison in El Salvador
How Rural Areas Rely on Bullies to Keep Decent People Marginalized and Afraid
We're So Worried About Offending Oppressors That We Never Stand Up For the Oppressed
Why Liberal Elites Need to Make Things Easier for Rural Liberals
How To Create Discount Codes to Encourage Substack Paid Subscribers
How My Puppy Set Me Straight Over a Few Matters of Ownership
How Frequent Publishing Is Once Again the Most Lucrative Writing Strategy
Writing to Expectation Versus Writing From Inspiration
How People Mistakenly Indoctrinate Their Children When they Teach Them
The Inherent Lie of “We Can Disagree and Still Be Friends”
Plead or Scream? What's the Best Way to Get Through to Indoctrinated Right-Wingers?
When the Vet Sent Us to Collect a Pee Sample From the Dog
How Stories of Immigration Can Emphasize the Power of Our Shared Humanity
Why Didn't You Leave Your Horrific Rural Town Earlier?
Movie Break: Tick, Tick... Boom! The Electric State, Yellowjackets, and White Lotus (again)
If You Think America Was Ever Better Than This—You're Wrong!
How to Break the Pull and Escape the Control of a Cruel Patriarch
Billionaires Are Losing So Much Money, They Might Wish They'd Just Paid Their Taxes
How You Can't Hide the Contradictions of the Authoritarian Lies
Dear MAGA, You're Not What You Think You Are and You Never Have Been
How Basketball, Breakfast, and Chicken Wings Brought Me Joy Last Weekend
Humanity Will Be WIPED OUT Unless You Read This
What Rural Folk Don't Know About the Lie They Call a Life
People Who Spew Anti-LGBTQ+ Hate Are Often Child Abusers
How My Experience at the Hands-Off Demonstration Helped Ease My Anxiety
How Frequent Publishing Is Once Again the Most Lucrative Writing Strategy
How I Will Respond to the Coordinated Assault on My Video Meeting
How Rural Indoctrination Disguises the History of Supremacy in the United States
Jealousy Is a Form of Control That Operates Through the Withholding of Love
How the Stresses Kids Feel Are as Traumatic as the Stresses of Adults
How Surviving Toxic Family River Trips Taught Me Lessons I Never Use
How The Republican Fixation on Punishment Will End up Destroying Us All
What Everyone Gets Wrong About Writing Advice
How It Went When My Daughter Introduced Me to Her First Boyfriend
How to Understand and Influence the Red Rural Mind
Movie Break: We Discuss Don't Look Up, Transformers One, Walking Dead, The Men Who Stare at Goats
Why Susan Crawford's Victory Is a Sign America Might Survive
Why We Must Oppose the Extreme, Right-Wing, Supremacy Agenda
How People Can Overcome Division and Effectively Fight Authoritarianism
Why Susan Crawford's Victory Is a Sign America Might Survive
Relinquish Your Rage and Embrace Your Sense of Righteous Justice
How It's an Act of Violence to Force People to Listen to Prayer
Why Isn't Anyone Stopping Republicans from Trying to Buy Elections?
I Don't Expect My Writer Friends to Read My Work
How the Wisconsin Election Might Determine the Survival of the United States
Why Isn't Anyone Stopping Republicans from Trying to Buy Elections?
What Everyone Gets Wrong About Growing Their Paid Newsletter
Dismantling the Malicious, Right-Wing Lie that America Was Founded as a Christian Nation
How an Act of Kindness Can Provide a Glimpse Into the Nature of Immortality
We Need More Novels that Emphasize the Basic Humanity of Immigrants
Lessons From Frederick Douglass on the Link Between Literacy and Freedom
What Does It Mean to Be a Survivor of Christian Abuse?
How Titles Must Occupy the Fertile Space Between Content and Code
How Republicans Steal Elections When the People Feel Powerless
How to Resist Corruption and Help Create a Better World
All Bigotry Is Ignorance, But Not All Ignorance Is Bigotry
What I Really Learned from All Those 1980s Nuclear Strike Drills
There Is No Way to Survive a Dictatorship Other Than To Resist, Resist, Resist
How the Wisconsin Election Might Determine the Survival of the United States
How Learning a Foreign Language Might Help You Overcome Depression
How An Incompetent White Supremacist Military Is a Threat to the World
What Has the Political Right Ever Done to Stop Human Trafficking?
How Jesus Christ Became the Model for Fascism
I'm So Lucky to Be the Father of Daughters
What Has the Political Right Ever Done to Stop Human Trafficking?
Writing With Crushing Anxiety, The Latest on Medium, and Upcoming Subscription Renewals
What's Wrong With Writing and Demons and Women Dancing in the Night?
Finding Peace and Purpose Beside The Woman of the Sea
The Democrats Speaking at Town Halls Are Giving Me Hope
How Six Months of Homelessness Can Change Your Perception of Reality
All the Toxic Abusers We've Escaped in Our Lives Have Returned to Power
As Ignorant As Republicans Are, They Still Mostly Understand that Nazis are Evil
When the Vet Sent Us to Collect a Pee Sample From the Dog
MAGA is a Cuckold, The President Only Loves Putin
How Drinking Beer Can Save Your Life When Running Marathons
If You Think America Was Ever Better Than This—You're Wrong!
Thursday Movie Break: We Discuss Jurassic Park, For All Mankind, Ladyhawke, and The Secret Kingdom
How Writing Helps Me Manage My Anxiety
People Don't Understand that Racism Is the Shame of Christianity
Dismantling Hatred in Literature and in Our Communities With Will Fullwood
What Kind of an Example Do We Set When We Force Our Kids to Endure This President?
We're So Worried About Offending Oppressors That We Never Stand Up For the Oppressed
The Lesser of Two Evils Is For Schumer to Resign as Minority Leader
The Democrats Speaking at Town Halls Are Giving Me Hope
A Message Also Must Achieve Herd Immunity
You Can't Put Off Your Happiness Until the World Is Perfect
What Everybody Is Getting Wrong About the CR Vote
The Lesser of Two Evils Is For Schumer to Resign as Minority Leader
Medium Is Showing Signs of Life and Other Writing News
Why You Must Always Avoid the Disgusting Symbols of White Supremacy
What Everybody Is Getting Wrong About the CR Vote
Billionaires Are Losing So Much Money, They Might Wish They'd Just Paid Their Taxes
Stop Subsidizing Parasite Billionaires and Give the People Their Money
Writing Q&A Featuring Tips and Tricks to Maximize Your Substack Newsletter
People Who Spew Anti-LGBTQ+ Hate Are Often Child Abusers
How I Got Sick and Ended Up Having to Give Up Skiing (For a While)
We Deserve an America That Understands Confederate Tributes Are Monuments to Evil
I'm a US Citizen, Why Does My Own Country Hate Me?
We Need to Renew Our Commitment to Finding Unity With Our Neighbors
It's Not the End of America, We're Just Going Through a Divorce
How My Grumpy Neighbor Prefers to Spend His Time with Dogs Instead of People
Let's Meet for a Q&A on Friday, March 14th
Humanity Will Be WIPED OUT Unless You Read This
Republicans Are About to Realize That They Are the Parasitic Welfare Class
Discussing and Understanding the Disturbing Behavior of Racialized White People
How My Wife Navigated the Traumatic Process of International Degree Accreditation
Why Are You Not Embarrassed to Call Yourself a Conservative?
Discussing the Past, Present and Future of Writing With Prolific Author Alison Acheson
What Everyone Gets Wrong About Writing Advice
How a Veterinarian Finally Came Through and Saved the Puppy's Life
America Doesn’t Have an Immigrant Problem, It has a White Supremacy Problem
How Jesus Christ Became the Model for Fascism (In America)
How a Stomach Problem Tormented my Puppy, and the Vet Refused to See Him
How Singing Karaoke Can Be the Key to Your Empowerment
The Inherent Lie of “We Can Disagree and Still Be Friends”
Discussing Culture, Diversity, and the Challenges We Face With Guest Zuri Stevens
How Al Green Demonstrated the Model for Defeating Authoritarianism
How Surviving Toxic Family River Trips Taught Me Lessons I Never Use
Thursday Movie Break Replay--Suspense, War Movies, and Superheroes
What Everyone Gets Wrong About Genetics When it Comes to Training
How Al Green Demonstrated the Model for Defeating Authoritarianism
Wait a Minute, There are Conservatives Who Actually Think They're NOT Homophobic?
The Simple Dream of Farming Is Gone and It’s Not Coming Back
What People Always Overlook When it Comes to Balancing Gratitude and Anxiety
Republicans Are About to Realize That They Are the Parasitic Welfare Class
Vet Appointment, 5K With My Daughter, Medium's Boost, and Other Notes
Forget About American Politics for a Moment and Look at These Pictures of Cusco
Tactics for Negotiating With a Malignant Narcissist
My Daughter Played Basketball Against a Transgender Girl and This Is What Happened
A Conversation With Will Fullwood About Indoctrination in Rural Areas
Toxic Families Lead to a Toxic Culture in the United States
MAGA is a Cuckold, The President Only Loves Putin
What I Really Learned from All Those 1980s Nuclear Strike Drills
A Discussion with Zuri Stevens on How to Make Your Voice Heard
I Haven’t Had a Big Break, But I’ve Had a Lot of Little Breaks
Live Movie and Travel Chat with Walter Rhein and Ben Ulansey
How We Must Focus on the Positive During Anxious and Uncertain Times
We Need to Renew Our Commitment to Finding Unity With Our Neighbors
How Small Parenting Successes Set the Stage for a Better World
How I Learned What It Takes to Be a Champion by Losing to One
Why Are You Not Embarrassed to Call Yourself a Conservative?
Why Are You Still Defending Conservatives When All They Do Is Hurt Us?
Why People Can’t Ignore the Valuable Truth Found in Poverty Literature
Lessons From Frederick Douglass on the Link Between Literacy and Freedom
How Republicans Try to Bully Us into Accepting Their Toxic Hate Ideology
Don't Practice Your Activism With the Parking Brake On
The Simple Dream of Farming Is Gone and It’s Not Coming Back
How Disrespectful Conservatives Have Treated My Immigrant Family Like Shit
Why We Can't Succumb to a Self-Defeating Mindset if We're to Oppose Fascism
How to Best Harvest Your Inspiration so You Can Change the World
How Conservatives, Republicans and Christians are Responsible for Every Problem in the World
How Generating Buzz Is the Key to Activating Empty Followers
Stop Subsidizing Parasite Billionaires and Give the People Their Money
How to Take Advantage of Online Tools to Increase Your Writing Productivity
Bullies Have Mobile Boundaries They Trot Out at Their Own Convenience
How I Will Respond to the Coordinated Assault on My Video Meeting
How My Buddy Battled a Snapping Turtle on the Way Back from a Marathon
Why Is It We Must Be Ruled by the Worst of Us? Why?
My Video Meeting Was Attacked And I'm Deeply Sorry
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Reflections on Skiing the 2025 American Birkebeiner and the Inevitability of Change
How Learning to Embrace Diversity Can Change the Trajectory of Your Life
How an Act of Kindness Can Provide a Glimpse Into the Nature of Immortality
Hiking the Inca Trail With Two Olympians
The Perils of Teaching Your Children to Swim
What Does It Mean to Be a Survivor of Christian Abuse?
Why We Can No Longer Afford to Ignore the Crimes of American History
No, We Aren't Going to Lose Our Democracy to This Pair of Twits
All the Toxic Abusers We've Escaped in Our Lives Have Returned to Power
How Toxic Authoritarians Indoctrinate People with Their False Messaging
Republicans Have Declared War on the Constitution
Assessing the Current State of Medium and Substack
From Growing up in an Unincorporated Town to the Creation of This Podcast
How I Became a Bestseller By Giving My Work Away for Free
My Daughter Played Basketball Against a Transgender Girl and This Is What Happened
The Awesome Adventure of Doing Ski Races in Italy and Germany When I Was Young
How I Reacted When I Saw a Child Wearing a Hate Symbol at School
Republicans Have Declared War on the Constitution
How Exposing Conservative Hypocrisy Reveals the Way to Unity
Happy Valentine's Day Everyone!
Finding Peace and Purpose Beside The Woman of the Sea
Why Your Kids Are Never Too Big For Hugs
Americans Won't Accept a Future in Which There Are No Elections
Toxic Families Lead to a Toxic Culture in the United States
We Can No Longer Avoid the Hardship of Incompetent Republican Ideology
How Growing Up in the Broken-Hearted Fringes Can Cripple a Life
How My Grumpy Neighbor Prefers to Spend His Time with Dogs Instead of People
Why Statistically Irrelevant Arguments Are Dishonest and Unhelpful
President Tyrant Wants to Turn Us All Into Obedient, Exploited, and Miserable Wage Slaves
Why People Can’t Ignore the Valuable Truth Found in Poverty Literature
How Unity Is the Key to Navigating our Toxic Reality in Pursuit of a Better World
Be the Whisper That Turns Into a Roar
I Always Provide You With the Best Information Currently at My Disposal
How Great Stories Are Born from Running out of Energy in a Competition
Why You Shouldn't Burn Your Writing Bridges Before You Cross Them
Don't Practice Your Activism With the Parking Brake On
We Demand the Fulfillment of the Undelivered Promise
Self-Publishing and Getting the Most out of Substack with Special Guest Michelle Teheux
How Voice Recordings Can Help Writers Fully Capture Their Inspiration
Why Is It We Must Be Ruled by the Worst of Us? Why?
No Victory Is Too Small When Your Back Is Against the Wall
Republicans Have Turned the United States Into a Shithole Country
How Learning to Embrace Diversity Can Change the Trajectory of Your Life
Thursday Movie Break: Undone, The Mitchells vs the Machines, Into the Spider-Verse, and LOTR (1978)
Silence is Compliance! Resistance Begins By First Putting Pressure on the Rational People
Why California Democrats Should Move to Wyoming to Defeat the Electoral College
BBF 29. How I Got Started as a Writer by Sending Out Silly Newsletters
I'm So Honored to See That Loretta Ross Mentioned me in Her Book!
How a Neighbor Probably Saved my Puppy's Life With a Thoughtful Suggestion
President Tyrant Wants to Turn Us All Into Obedient, Exploited, and Miserable Wage Slaves
How to Unlock Your Mind's Power to Better Serve the Resistance
Why Standing For the National Anthem Is a Symbol of White Supremacy
No, We Aren't Going to Lose Our Democracy to This Pair of Twits
Ending Birthright Citizenship Is a Gift to Child Sex Traffickers
Why the Destruction of Our Nation Cannot Deprive us of Our Joy and Hope
I Miss the Way Medium Was 5 Months Ago
How a Shaman in Peru Urged me to Take a Strong Psychedelic Drug
Be the Whisper That Turns Into a Roar
How American Parents are Forced to Sacrifice Their Children in the Name of Profit
We Deserve an America That Understands Confederate Tributes Are Monuments to Evil
Neighbor, Please Take Your Hate Sign Down
How Growing Up in the Broken-Hearted Fringes Can Cripple a Life
Americans Die When You Fire Federal Employees and Replace Them With Incompetent People
BBF 28. How Finding a Community Makes You Feel Powerful
The Hateful Are Not Going to Win
Silence is Compliance! Resistance Begins By First Putting Pressure on the Rational People
A Brief Introduction to Getting Started on Substack
America Doesn’t Have an Immigrant Problem, It has a White Supremacy Problem
Facing an Uncertain Future I Feel a Combination of Hopelessness and Rage
Ending Birthright Citizenship Is a Gift to Child Sex Traffickers
Why We Can't Succumb to a Self-Defeating Mindset if We're to Oppose Fascism
BBF 27. How There Is a Wonderful Community of Cross-Country Skiers Traipsing From Race to Race
How Every Flawed Republican Argument Is a Thought Terminating Cliche
Why Writers Need to Keep Their Finger on the Pulse of Their Market
How My Wife Remembers Growing Up in Peru During the Era of Terrorism
Neighbor, Please Take Your Hate Sign Down
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How I Reacted When I Saw a Child Wearing a Hate Symbol at School
Republicans Have Turned the United States Into a Shitty Place to Raise Kids
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Bullies Have Mobile Boundaries They Trot Out at Their Own Convenience
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Why It’s Time to Ghost or Escape Your Toxic Conservative or Republican Spouse
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Facing an Uncertain Future I Feel a Combination of Hopelessness and Rage
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So, What's Going on With Medium and What Can We Do About It?
Nobody Should Be Persecuted Because of the People They Choose To Love
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Killer Sharks, Affectionate Dogs, Bold Astronauts, Failed Sequels, and More
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How to Build a Good Strategy to Maximize the Power of Both Medium and Substack
How Editing, Pet Peeves, and Philosophy Can Impact the Craft of Writing
How Generating Buzz Is the Key to Activating Empty Followers
How The Toxic Masculinity of Conservative Men Condemns Them to Misery
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How Learning a Foreign Language Will Give You a New Perspective on Life
Video Replay of the Medium Mastermind Question and Answer Session
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How I Became a Bestseller By Giving My Work Away for Free
What Are You Streaming Lately? Suggestions for What to Watch This Weekend
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How to Unleash Your Story and Grow in Popularity as a Professional Writer
Why You Shouldn't Burn Your Writing Bridges Before You Cross Them
BBF 22. How Losing Your Passport Can Dampen Your Enthusiasm for a Trip
How the Christian Code of Fear Has Destroyed the Moral Fiber of Our Society
How a Veterinarian Finally Came Through and Saved the Puppy's Life
How It's Shameful That Political Domestic Terrorism Has Been Normalized in the USA
Why More People Need to Speak Out Against the Evil of Mass Deportation
How The Dog Realized He was Taller Than the Fence and Made a Fool of Me
How Billionaires Cannot Be Trusted Because They Only Care About Hurting Us
How Good Mentors Give You the Best Chance to Manage Life's Obstacles
What Kind of Message Does Supporting a Criminal Send to Our Kids?
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BBF 21. How Running a Marathon Can Change Your Perspective on the World
How to Avoid Writing Scams and Lift Your Voice for the Greater Good
How Destroying the Web of Lies Forces Us to Be Tightrope Walkers
How Voice Recordings Can Help Writers Fully Capture Their Inspiration
My New Year's Resolution Is to Confront All Lies That Are Presented as Truth
How American Parents are Forced to Sacrifice Their Children in the Name of Profit