Published inBouncin’ and Behaving Blogs TWO·PinnedMember-onlySeize the Day!How to Carpe Your Diem — Sparkling, effervescing, bubbly, ebullient, frothing, lively, buzzing, fizzy, active, bouncing, and animated. That is how to start every day! The choice is ours. We have agency. We can grab the steering wheel of life and choose our own direction. …Life7 min readLife7 min read
PinnedMember-onlyA Guide To Medium EtiquetteA beginner’s guide to a polite platform — a collaboration between Wild River and John Pearce One of the things I love about Medium is the friendly supportive culture that exists on the platform. …Medium11 min readMedium11 min read
Published inWriting Academy·PinnedMember-onlyThe Seven Deadly Sins Of MediumThe Highway To Medium Hell Serial tagging — we have probably all been caught out by this one — the writers who tag loads of us at the end of an article, and since we all love to be mentioned, we end up trawling through a long, tedious article about…Writing2 min readWriting2 min read
PinnedMember-onlyA Better LifeAll self-help books summarised “Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for — in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you…Life8 min readLife8 min read
PinnedMember-onlyThe Black DogFind your passion and follow it — One of the best pieces of advice I have heard for someone struggling with depression is to “do more of what you love”, and make the most of what you have rather than wishing you had more. Finding what we love is not always easy, especially if already feeling down…Self Improvement4 min readSelf Improvement4 min read
Published inBouncin’ and Behaving Blogs TWO·1 day agoMember-onlyLife LessonsOn a better life — This article seeks to distill some of the lessons I have learned over the years, in the hope that you may find some of them useful. I set myself a challenge of trying to get them all into one article! Do share any of your own in the comments. Find…Life8 min readLife8 min read
3 days agoMember-onlyGood Coach TonyDeep and crisp and Medium — (To the tune of ‘Good King Wenceslas’, starring Medium CEO Tony Stubblebine, aka. Coach Tony, and Buster Benson, Head of Product) Good Coach Tony last looked out, on the Feast of Stephen, When the snow lay round about, deep and crisp and Medium; Brightly shone the moon that night, tho’…Humor2 min readHumor2 min read
5 days agoMember-onlyThe 10 Commandments Of MediumOn our best behaviour — The following is for entertainment purposes only and not to be taken too seriously! You shall have no other gods before me Don’t even think of Substack, Reddit, Pinterest, Facebook, Instagram, or X/Twitter. You shall worship no god except Medium. You shall not make for yourself an idol Resist the…Humor2 min readHumor2 min read
Nov 22Member-onlyThe Scrap Metal MerchantOn reverse alchemy — Throughout the ages there has been a dream of turning lead into gold: the idea that a dull, worthless base metal could be transformed into something shiny and valuable. Hence the alchemist, with potions and spells, who laboured away in a Medieval laboratory, with flasks, test tubes and chemicals, experimenting…Humor2 min readHumor2 min read
Nov 20Member-onlyThe Five Stages Of Medium GriefOn Medium Melancholy — This article considers the stages writers may go through when our article is not quite as successful as we may have hoped. We have laboured for hours over the article, blood, sweat and tears. Followed all the advice, perhaps even remembered to spell-check it. Chosen the five topic groups, pressed…Medium3 min readMedium3 min read
