ATTENTION, PLEASE: “@Melinblau” — Medium’s former ID for me — Melinda Blau — whose work you read and hopefully enjoyed is gone. From now on… Please look for me on Medium as @MelindaBlau (Melinda Blau) Sorry! When I signed up for Medium, I didn’t pay enough attention to “user name.” I actually didn’t pay any attention. It was enough […]
I Hope NOT to Slide into “Addiction.”
This week, I published an unprecedented TWO articles on Medium…in one day, no less (that was a coincidence; see explanation and “friend links” below). I’m pleased with both of them. But I’m also worried about an old problem returning… One of the pieces,“Finding Myself: 10 Months on Medium, 43 Years in Journalism,” was, to my […]
I Know You Want to Hear About Verizon….
Thanks for your comments and your cheering on…. It is gratifying to realize (though I suspected) how many of you identified. And now the story continues, “My Stolen $156.46: How It Ended”
Check out the “Five Faces of Mask”
In my latest post on Medium, The Five Faces of Mask, I revisit a subject I covered 6 months ago.” Here’s an aside: Could mask merchandise forecast the election, two weeks from now? An Amazon search for Trump 2020 face mask yielded 501 “results” compared to 417 for Biden 2020 face mask. Among the companies selling […]
Have You Wondered Where I’ve Been?
I will soon be returning to Paris, where I lived on-and-off between 2008 and 2019. It is an unexpected move — at once, exciting and daunting. Not knowing exactly when I’m leaving but having to decide what I’ll need and where to put everything else while I’m gone is not conducive to writing. That said, […]