It Started with the Wrong Uber Did you every wonder what happens when you get into someone else’s Uber and the driver doesn’t speak your language? I hadn’t…until recently. Which is surprising. I tend to catastrophize when it comes to gallivanting around Paris armed only with toddler French. I typically imagine myself post-accident: rushed to the […]
Ev Williams, Is Medium Ageist?
Why Would A Platform That Champions Writers Exclude Anyone…Especially Seasoned Pros Photo by Jan Kopřiva on Unsplash READERS OF THIS BLOG: This piece appeared first on Medium. In the original version, which I hope you’ll read there if you’re a member, I tagged several writers whose work I’ve discovered over the last year and who, […]
For Today at Least: I Figured Out What I’ll Write Here
Since I started writing for Medium last April, I’ve been at sea: What to post here? What to post there? How do I decide? Experience is the best teacher. I garner more “eyeballs” on Medium where my articles can be curated — selected by editors (the process, as explained on Medium) who then feature the […]
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 […]
This Time I Find Trouble Without Leaving Home!
Here, for your reading pleasure is my latest adventure in Paris. It could happen to you, too…. …unless you’re a Luddite or, famously, Fran Lebowitz, who recently told New Yorker writer Michael Schulman that the pandemic has not broken down her resistance to technology: No. In fact, the daughter of a friend of mine called […]