• Life,  Medium

    How to Handle a Dwindling Friendship

    Friends drifting apart is a fact of life, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy to handle. The pandemic has been hard on relationships. Whether you’ve started to realize you don’t align with your friends on certain values, you’ve struggled to…

  • borrowed solace,  Medium

    So You Think You Can Podcast?

    You probably can, but it takes a lot of work and some stick-to-itivness. f you’re like 41% of Americans, you probably listen to your favorite podcast at least once a month (or more, if you’re like me.) That’s about 116 million…

  • Medium,  Writing

    I Had My First Viral Story Ever

    …and it wasn’t on Medium I finally know the feeling of having an article go viral on the world wide web!The article in question didn’t go viral on Medium, however, it went viral on the oft-written about local news site,…

  • Medium,  Poetry

    Condescension

    A poem. What if I still cryduring intractable conversationswhen I am oldin my professional career? Would you preferrobots?People replacerswith calculatorsbuilt-in. With age, wisdomdoes notautomatically bestowitself upon you. Emotional intelligence isnot tapped intolike a keg. Perhaps you wouldprefer it to be?…

  • Medium,  Writing

    The Art of the Flashback

    Flashbacks in your story can be useless, or they can be an incredible way to add characterization or further your plot. The choice is up to you. Do you know something that bothers me when I am reading a novel?…