Good Vibes Club

Some wisdom that my Medium friends have shared over the past few weeks — Many of us use favorite quotes in our Medium stories, to accent a point, or use as explanation. But I hadn’t realized how much wisdom I was gaining from reading my Medium friend’s stories here. Even though we’re not Winston Churchill, John F. …

The voice inside my head says to me: Be careful what I say. Be careful what I think. Be careful what I do. Don’t make a huge stink! Eat those vegetables! Try to please everyone that is on that “please everyone on this list” list!! Stop staring at those strangers! Pick those socks up off the floor! Did…

A challenge to promote your older articles. I was reading an ICYMI challenge by Trisha Faye and thought this was a great idea. Hats off to Kerry Purvis! I have the requirements for anyone who wants to do the challenge at the bottom of this article. Now we have a chance to prove the algorithms wrong by…

My daughter in law and I made little handwritten books a few years back and chose many topics to write about … The rules were to: Set a timer for three minutes. Breathe deep a few times. Start writing on the topic until the bell rings. This was the first…

Thanking all the Good Vibes Club writers that made this week great with these special stories. — This week we had 19 writers submitting 29 stories. I appreciate all the wonderful writers here — those from this week and those from weeks prior! And before we get into the stories this week — here’s a huge shout out to Jan Sebastian 🖐👩‍🦰. All this time I thought…

Even if they don’t turn out the way you expected — Shh, can you hear it? My father’s ghost is sitting in the corner of my office, whispering that everything will be OK. He’s pissed off because I haven’t been listening to him lately. This is a ghost that won’t take no for an answer. Just as he was in life. …

Contamination OCD — Having a mental illness can be costly, even with health insurance. I have not received proper treatment for OCD (I was prescribed different types of medication to treat it that were ineffective) — I prefer exposure therapy. The pandemic exacerbated my OCD symptoms. Right before the pandemic hit, I was…

This weekend is set aside to honor those military heroes who gave their all for our freedom. This started out being called Decoration Day after the Civil War. It was officially changed to Memorial Day after WWI. Back in 1971, Congress declared it a national holiday. On a personal note…

Sharing some Medium news, a good news story, a laugh for the day, a moment of joy and more! — MEDIUM NEWS There’s a new challenge in town, by Kerry Purvis. It’s about fighting back against the Medium algorithm that loves to bury our old stories. Here’s a way to highlight a few and get a few extra reads on some older, languishing stories of ours. Pamela Oglesby is the one that…