I’m moving my content to Medium. Please pray for me. — I’m a stubborn but optimistic old bat. After moving to a small conservative Iowa town, the regional newspaper of record began publishing my weekly 400-word liberal essays — and I kept on restoring an 1890’s “Workman's Victorian” home on Main Street. …

Part 8.2 of Inspirations for Building Your Home Business — A Guide to Learning — Look for successful people and learn from what they are doing. When you imitate what they are doing, you can expect to begin having similar results. Try to not fixate on a single individual. You can do better. …

I’m a 70-year-old “boomerang” Medium writer and ready to rumble. Here’s what I’m doing. How do YOU get organized? — Howdy Pardner What do YOU do when it's time to start a seriously new project? Do you take classes or hire a mentor? Do you dive in headfirst and learn from experience? I’ve developed a serviceable go-to process and it works for me. In this case, I’ve had a lifetime of communicating…

I read and enjoyed Carrie A. Kelly’s Medium post on adjusting her career path and using her old LinkedIn account with great results. I wouldn’t have gotten involved except for Ben Wann’s downer of a reply. The original words are here: I Now Understand — LinkedIn is the Future What happened when I wrote one postmedium.com I got a bit wound up and by the time I caught my breath, I said to myself, “This puppy could have been an actual article.” So, here it is.

Silly person, what were you thinking? — Every time you sign up with a social media outfit, you are presented with a terms of service agreement. I’ll bet you clicked “I agree” without reading (to say nothing of actually understanding) the contract you were signing. Poor silly person. No offense intended. I do it too. Recently, there…

Because You Asked… — David’s wife lives in dread of his personal library someday crashing through the floor into the living room. Undeterred, he maintains that “a man knows himself by the books he keeps.” “After retiring from a quarter-century of industrial control systems plus computer and communications work in manufacturing and refining, he…

Would You Read Your Stuff to Friends AND Critics? — Writers on Medium seem to be getting lost in a wilderness of angst. “What should I write about and what gets rewarded and how?” The answer is already in your heart. First, we need to be very aware of the difference between quantity and quality. Earnest Hemingway is widely quoted…