A photo essay of my Medium earnings — I must have either pissed off some of the bigwigs at Medium, or else I failed the popularity contest (as usual). I suspect it’s the latter, because I’m not good at popularity contests. I mean I was the kid in primary school who tried so hard to do something bad…

I need to use new tags on Instagram — I accidentally triggered a conservative white guy over an article I haven’t even published yet because he takes exception to the fact that I insinuated that Kyle Rittenhouse a murderer instead of feeling sorry for poor Kyle and insisting he killed in self-defense. Until now, I’d never had the experience…

The day I was baptized changed my life completely — Today is my two-year baptism anniversary, and yes it is odd for someone to celebrate their baptism anniversar but I’m an odd person. This essay is about my baptism and why it ws so significant. I was baptized on 27th September, 2021. With grief, I walked slowly to the altar…

I sure as hell won’t give it to “charity” — I was completely disgusted, but not surprised when I saw the new signs. They were at several intersections, exits, bus stops, and other places around the city. “It’s OK not to give to panhandlers,” these signs said, with a picture of a hand with palm up, surrounded by a red…

This was such an affirming thing to learn — I am remembering what happened to me as a child and the perpetrators are pissed. They have a vested interest in making sure everyone believes I am liar, or crazy, or that I’m slandering them because I hate them. They circled their wagons long ago. Despite their claims to the…

Confession is a faith-based tool to help with twelve step work — In the traditional recovery process, an addict works through a process called the twelve steps that helps bring about a transformation that gives the addict a framework to help walk in sobriety. As someone who has been working on and struggling through the twelve steps for years, one of the…

I can gather information about a person by what they read — It’s been said that we shouldn’t judge books by their covers, even though we do, but I certainly pay attention and judge what books are on someone’s bookshelves. I took (with permission of course) Susie Kearley’s idea of showing off my bookshelves. Every time I have to start working with…

Our Lady of Guadalupe showed up for me as she has for others — Soldiers in the Army have a uniform, and dog tags, soldiers in the street wars are identified by tattoos and wearing the right colors. …

Medium doesn’t seem to be a profitable platform anymore — If you really like and want to keep up with my work, you should probably subscribe to my Substack, as I spend a whole lot more time there these days. Subscriptions there are free, and you get three stories a week. I’m not charging for my writing on Substack, but…