Gérard Mclean – Medium

Featured Book

Monkey with a Loaded Typewriter: Mostly True Essays

Monkey with a Loaded Typewriter: Mostly True Essays

A collection of essays about life, love and observations.

2014

Stories

Pinned

Gérard Mclean
in
GerardMcLean

My résumé as a book in story form

Companies tell me all the time they want to hire storytellers. So, I converted my résumé into a story and bound it up into a short 70-page…

1 min readJul 26, 2018

--

My résumé as a book in story form

--

Gérard Mclean
in
GerardMcLean

A birthday and strolling through some reviews

My daughter turned thirty-three on Sunday. These are the events that grabs you and pulls you down to earth, strangles and demands to know…

6 min readMar 27, 2024

--

1

A traditional Danish birthday lagkage Chocolate cake layers, banana, strawberries, custard and no buttercream in sight.

--

1

Gérard Mclean
in
GerardMcLean

My neighborhood died

As the neighborhood died, the ghosts lived

4 min readMar 4, 2024

--

1

My neighborhood died

--

1

Gérard Mclean

Can ChatGPT replace your dad?

I had a random thought and decided to take it to my favorite AI

6 min readMar 28, 2023

--

3

A statue of two frogs sitting beside each other, one with their hand around the other’s shoulder

--

3

Gérard Mclean

Outside the lines, inside the box

Coloring outside the lines, inside the box

2 min readMar 10, 2023

--

Outside the lines, inside the box

--

Gérard Mclean

Your dog doesn’t know you are mentally unstable

If your dog knew just how close you were to jumping off the planet, should she abandon you for another?

5 min readFeb 16, 2023

--

A sleeping dog named Zoey.

--

Gérard Mclean
in
Sybarite

How to Cook a Freaking Steak, Okay?

700 degrees, six minutes

3 min readFeb 16, 2023

--

6

How to Cook a Freaking Steak, Okay?

--

6

Gérard Mclean

Some say Dayton was transformed into a tropical island on a cold Friday night.

Once on This Island is playing at the Dayton Playhouse Jan 13–29, 2023.

5 min readJan 15, 2023

--

1

Some say Dayton was transformed into a tropical island on a cold Friday night.

--

1

Gérard Mclean
in
GerardMcLean

The New Year’s Eve when the world was supposed to grind to a halt; Y2K

Do we share New Year’s Eve stories like Americans share 9/11 stories? Can I do it anyway? Y’all can add your story below if you want and…

2 min readDec 30, 2022

--

The New Year’s Eve when the world was supposed to grind to a halt; Y2K

--

Gérard Mclean
in
Sharktooth Press

The order in which you do things matter

Ingredients are only part of the recipe. This is about cookies, but it’s also not about cookies. It’s about writing books.

2 min readJun 11, 2022

--

1

The order in which you do things matter

--

1

Gérard Mclean

Gérard Mclean

Book Author

Picking my brain will cost you a fortune. No discounts. Author; Monkey with a Loaded Typewriter http://amzn.to/1xxlLZB @rivershark @gerardmclean everywhere.

Help
Status
About
Careers
Blog
Privacy
Terms
Text to speech
Teams