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Dew Langrial

If You Knew How Never-Ending Stress Affects Your Brain
Would you be willing to change the way you live your life?medium.com

Remington Write

Have You Lost it Yet?
I’m counting down until I do and it won’t be prettymedium.com

Jan M Flynn

Don’t Look Now, But There’s Dog Poop In My Fridge
Like 2020 wasn’t bad enough alreadymedium.com

Floyd Mori

It Has Been Quite A Journey
Bio for Illumination-Curatedmedium.com

Dr Michael Heng

3 Compelling Reasons to Redo the 2020 US Presidential Elections
Democracy Demands a Reckoningmedium.com

Bill Abbate

How Do You See the Path of Life?
Where do you see yourself at the end?medium.com

Arpit Ravichandran

The Beginning of the End of the Pandemic
The ‘shot’ heard round the worldmedium.com

M. Mollenthiel

Liberalism Attacked!
The battle within the Left: Who will win?medium.com

James G Brennan

Fresh Baked Bread!
A tanka response to an acrostic poem #2 “favourite craving”medium.com

Dr. Deborah M. Vereen

The True Spirit Of Thanksgiving
We must embrace it and stay safe at the same timemedium.com

René Phongam, DPT

How to Master Journaling Based Off The Sun’s Azimuth
They say timing is everythingmedium.com

Rebecca LeBard

This Small Change to Your Workday Will Improve Creative Thinking
Plan ahead to walk away and still remain productivemedium.com

Marjorie J McDonald

Strategies to Promote Creative Performance
Discover the ingredients that stimulate your creative ability moremedium.com

Stuart Englander

All Aboard For the Adventure of Your Lives
Summing up 2020 with a storymedium.com

Geri Shumer

Don’t Be Afraid To Brine Your Turkey
The word is terrifying but the process is SUPER EASY and the result is the juiciest turkey you will ever eat!medium.com

Daniel Hövermann

4 Different Rules Behind Pricing You Have Never Thought Of
Money makes the world go round — and your head too.medium.com

Rebecca Stevens A.

How My Best Friend and I Gamed The World With Her White Privilege
I used my best friend’s white privilege to my advantage, and at the end of the day, it made me realize how both of us…medium.com

MaryJo Wagner, PhD

They Had Rules
Oh So Many rulesmedium.com

James Jordan

Mental Health Through Tough Times
A radical idea from the scriptures could be the key to finding peacemedium.com

Mac Daniels

Tales of Nāgārjuna
Illusory Independencemedium.com

Terry Mansfield

How MarTech Can Greatly Benefit FinTech
The big challenge of any company that has FinTech (financial technology) products and services is to find the best ways…medium.com

Randy Wolken

How Well Do You Know Yourself?
Maybe its time to find out.medium.com

Tim Ebl

7 Great Things About Being Canadian
Piles of gratitude for my northern latitudemedium.com

Myriam Ben Salem

Collection of Curated Stories on ILLUMINATION
Selected stories by Myriam Ben Salemmedium.com

Mac Daniels

|Ambergris |
John Singer Sargent’s Alchemy of Colormedium.com

Jonathan Isbill MS, RDN

Keep Your Health, Keep Your Happiness.
Lose your health and you risk losing everything.medium.com

Roger A. Reid, Ph.D.

The Power of Gratitude Can Help You Re-frame the Challenges of Life
Can’t think of anything to be grateful for?medium.com

Thewriteyard

Are We Mistakenly Applying Diversification to Humanity?
Can We Find New Ways to Heal Divisions?medium.com

Paul Thomas Zenki

Why I Stopped Forgiving People… and Maybe You Should, Too
Forgiveness was turning me into a chumpmedium.com

Julia E Hubbel

When My Sisters Preach Truth
I love to share it.medium.com

MaryJo Wagner, PhD

The Good, The Bad, The Not So Ugly:
Sheltering in My HOme Officemedium.com

Marjorie J McDonald

Enjoy Communicating With More Ease
Making your writing fun will inspire you to continuemedium.com

Breanna Lowman

Nature’s Edifice
If the world crumblesmedium.com

Paul Abela, MSc

How I Dealt With a Priest Trying to Groom Me
A first-hand experience gave me an understanding of how difficult it is to deal with predatorsmedium.com

Tim Ebl

How to Make Easy No-Knead Sourdough Rye Bread — My Latvian Grandma’s Recipe
Sourdough starter and home baked goodness from scratchmedium.com

Pene Hodge

Mexico IS Paying For the US Border Wall?
A few Pesos at a timemedium.com

Leo Guinan

The Future Workweek
It’s Time for the 40-Hour Workweek to Go.medium.com

Tom Hanratty

Master Bao and the Running Man
Real wealth is peace of mindmedium.com

Harry Seitz

The Lover
Love liesmedium.com

Suntonu Bhadra

Framed Or Not
that’s not the questionmedium.com

Sharena Rice

Growth: How Big a Fish, How Big a Pond?
A big fish in a small pond? A small fish in a big pond? Or is something else even better?medium.com

Darcy Thiel

Memo to the President
Even though it was completely ignoredmedium.com

Tooth Truth Roopa Vikesh

The Chhat Puja Festival
The austere six-day mega-festival with two strict fasts of thirty hours and then for forty hours that don’t allow even…medium.com

Daryl Mowat

The Realism of Immediate Continuity
Eternal time in the Now only exists as a delusion of our intellects.medium.com

Nikhil Vemu

My first iPhone
I got YouTube addictedmedium.com

janny’s heart

Leaving Too Soon
Holding my breathmedium.com

Brian Dickens Barrabee

All The Rocks In My Aquarium
Linda, maniacally: If I don’t get that rock back by tonight, I’m calling the Pennsylvania Real Estate Commission and…medium.com

Dr. Deborah M. Vereen

Caution: Be Careful Who You Trust
Many Christians who call themselves “prophet” are notmedium.com

Ali

A Life Not Worth Living
A Haiku about a Life Not Worth Living.medium.com

Eshan Samaranayake

Do You Feel Like You Always Expect the Worst? Blame It on the Genes
Most of our ancestors were most probably pessimists. And that was a good thing.medium.com

Wilson da Silva

Spinal Surgery, Complete with ‘True Love’
Watching a five-hour operation to correct a spinal deformity is not for the faint hearted.medium.com

Terry Mansfield

Why Outsourcing Bookkeeping May Be A Company’s Best Option
A fundamental question a company should ask itself is whether to keep the bookkeeping function in-house or to outsource…medium.com

Lester Golden

Lady Liberty’s Me Too Moment: the Trump Dump
But her reality TV ex still stalks hermedium.com

Rosennab

Four Responses to Trauma that Destroy Relationships
And the one that buildsmedium.com

Rebecca Stevens A.

Who Benefits Most From A Divided America?
Criminal investigators always ask themselves a crucial question when starting on a new case. Who stands to benefit the…medium.com

Julia E Hubbel

What Does it Mean to Live Large?
It may not be what you thinkmedium.com

Dr Mehmet Yildiz

I Published Six Articles on Vocal
This is what I learned.medium.com

Drama Llama

Loneliness and Isolation in a Materialistic World
The anxiety to conform to contemporary expectationsmedium.com

Robert Trakofler

Slow Walking Man (A true story)
Poetry and spoken word by Robert Trakoflermedium.com

Mukundarajan V N

We Can Create Our Own Smart Luck
How to harness the power of serendipitymedium.com

Alexandra Forsyth

To That One Guy:
A Haikumedium.com

Jamie Golob

Activating the Power of the Root Chakra
Energy, awakening, grounding, and evolutionmedium.com

Kiranjeet Kaur

7 ways to be Eco-Friendly
Being Eco-friendlymedium.com

Melissa Raise

How To Get Out Of Pain
What do you do when you have an itch? You scratch it, of course. It’s a knee-jerk reaction that you don’t even have to…medium.com

Deborah Barchi

Lament For a Meadow
Sadness and gratitude for a vanishing field of dreamsmedium.com

Tom Handy

One Thing I Stopped Doing to Get Out of My Depression
You need to know how to help you fight your own hopelessnessmedium.com

Amy Hartsough

4 Helpful Coping Skills for This Terrible Pandemic Fatigue
This is hard, but there is a way through it.medium.com

Dr. Deborah M. Vereen

10 Life Lessons For Children
A parent must be their teachermedium.com

Liam Ireland

Staring Death In The Face…
and coming up smiling.medium.com

Thomas Oppong

Struggle to Wake Up in The Morning? You Don’t Have to be a Morning Person to be Successful
Tap your energy cycle to boost your productivitymedium.com

Sebastian Purcell, PhD

Why The Buddhists and Aztecs Insist That Happiness Follows The Words You Say
What Crosses Your Lips Pre-Frames Your Mindmedium.com

Daniella Mini

Dear President-elect and Vice President-elect: The Bar Has Been Set High
Please, don’t let the voters downmedium.com

J.D. Harms

Reserved
A Poemmedium.com

Tooth Truth Roopa Vikesh

Fish-bone in Her Gums
It wasn’t bad enough to make her become vegetarianmedium.com

Haris Mohammad

5 Science-Backed Techniques to Help Your Brain Remember What You Learn
In the end, what you remember is what you knowmedium.com

Nikhil Vemu

UPI — India’s Way of Secure Digital Payments
It isn’t a Hyperbole that the World smells Innovation in India’s UPI.medium.com

Darcy Thiel

There’s No Place Like Home
So why can’t Dad just stay there?medium.com

Brian Dickens Barrabee

There’s A Ninja In My Bathtub
Trapped with no place to escape, the Ninja’s were apprehended with no one hurt.medium.com

Pene Hodge

Surviving COVID
This is what I didmedium.com

Dr Michael Heng

Why Data Science Needs People Management Buy-In
From Data Analytics to People Analytics to Enterprise Analyticsmedium.com

Harry Seitz

A Season of Survivor Was Filmed on an Island Nicer Than Mine
The toughest job you’ll ever love.medium.com

Christian Soschner

5 Simple Things You Can Do to Improve Your Sleep Quality
Why Steve Harvey Is Wrong With His Statement.medium.com

Adriana Sim

3 Ways I Haven’t Honoured My Friendships Over the Years
Some mistakes are just unfixablemedium.com

Gayle Kurtzer-Meyers

Enchanting Love of Nature
You were my morning sun peeping through the window.
Waking me up from a beautiful dream
You were my breeze in the…medium.com

Melissa Raise

We had OUR 21ST CLASS today!
Teaching fitness to adolescent kids has taught me a lot about resistance and perseverancemedium.com

Tom Handy

How to Make Your Marriage Last Forever
Keeping a marriage together is simply using the right wordsmedium.com

MaryJo Wagner, PhD

How to Use Free Tools for Better Writing
Grammarly, Spellcheck, and Find and Replacemedium.com

TheGradeks

Living In The Past Can Be More Addictive Than Drugs
Living in the past is like an addiction. If you stay where you are, eventually, you will end up slowly destroying…medium.com

Kapil Goel

2 Powerful Lessons From The Story of Darby — A Salesman
Stickability Vs Quitabilitymedium.com

Selma

Parsley — Not Just For Decoration
A tanka and a stutterer’s response to an acrostic challengemedium.com

Randy Wolken

What Gives You The Rest You Need Now?
Rest gives you the energy you need to be awesomemedium.com

Daryl Mowat

Numbers are Meaningless; Words have Meanings
Have you ever wondered what the meaning of meaning is?medium.com

Rebecca Romanelli

Let Your Inner Weirdo Out
I’ve encountered and known thousands of people. I’ve never met a ‘normal’. Everyone’s weird in their own way.medium.com

Eunice Gikonyo, Msc Psychology

How To Earn Respect
Start with not trying to earn respectmedium.com

Eshan Samaranayake

What We Think of as Reality Is Just an Interpretation
Lessons learned from ‘Deviate’ by Beau Lotto.medium.com

Neha Sandhir S

Swallow Your Pride
Cherish being alivemedium.com

Erwin Leonardy

Getting a Job During a Pandemic
Graduating during a pandemic is beyond our control, but our attitude towards it is within our control.medium.com

Penofgold

Guadalupe Can Use Some Help Here
Lost: immigrants, 360 children, 545 parents, separated at the border of US and Mexicomedium.com

Aamna I. Rizvi

A French Philosopher’s Morning Checklist for An Empowered Life
Her list has relevance to our lives even after a full century.medium.com

vidzparu

I Am Celebrating 5 Years of Not Wearing Uncomfortable Footwear
Good Decisions Deserves Acknowledgementmedium.com

Dr. Preeti Singh

Unusual Experience of Life
Valuable lessons learnedmedium.com

Tim Ebl

The Body Odor Encounter That Nearly Ruined Flying For Me
Just aCanadian trying to get to Cancunmedium.com

J.D. Harms

Couldn’t Think What to Say
A Poemmedium.com

Dr. Deborah M. Vereen

The New Covid Learning Gap In Education
I predict this will impact many students for years to comemedium.com

Kris Franklin

College Football Bets for 11/21
Following and betting along with this blog over the season would have you up $310 so far. Check out the preview to this…medium.com

Nusrat Nisa

5 Platforms Where You Can Earn Money by Transcribing Audio
Rates, test systems, and my experiences with listening to people talk and writing it down.medium.com

Fleur Sauvage

6 ft Apart
medium.com

Thomas Oppong

3 Underrated Habits That Can Help You Get More Done in a Day Than Most People Do in a Week
It pays to completely clear your mind and begin againmedium.com

Dr Mehmet Yildiz

Checklist for Quality Submissions
Improve quality and readability of your storiesmedium.com

Stuart Englander

Every Choice You Make
Has a bearing on the world you live inmedium.com

Victoria Ichizli-Bartels, Ph.D.

10 Reasons Why it Makes Sense to Write on Medium
#2 and #3 are my favorite.medium.com

Jason Ward

People who gain incredible skills after head trauma
Acquired Savant Syndrome is an extraordinary conditionmedium.com

Daniel A. Teo

My Mother Died In My Arms
A Short Storymedium.com

Mayank Pamnani

13 Incredible Life Lessons From Mark Zuckerberg
Tap into a billionaire’s mind.medium.com

Alexandra Forsyth

Thankful and Blessed
A haiku with some morning gratitudemedium.com

John Cunningham

Let your goals be your guide
Tips for creating stronger systems to achieve successmedium.com

Kimberly Thomas

Frontier
Free versemedium.com

Zachary Minott

This Quote From “The Good Place” Will Make You See Life in a Beautifully Different Way
Life is nothing more than a wave that forms, rolls, crashes, and withdrawsmedium.com

Steve Alexander🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸

U.S. POLITICS | THE SENATE | GEORGIA SENATORIAL RUNOFFS JANUARY, 2021
An Open Letter to the Georgia Voting-Eligible People Who Supported Joe Bidenmedium.com

Thomas Dylan Daniel

How To Write With Power
We write because we love it. And it makes us better. Here is a short guide to what I’ve learned about writing with…medium.com

Geri Shumer

How to Make A Thanksgiving Side Dish In Five Minutes
And everyone will LOVE it!medium.com

Shirley Willett

The Fifth Dimension Brings Different and Even Opposing Perspectives Into Coherency
We need to illuminate 5D perspectives for the crises we face in the world todaymedium.com

James Jordan

Fighting off ADHD Hibernation
There’s a difference between getting away to recharge, and hiding from the world.medium.com

Audrey Malone

How to Do Effective 1-Minute Meditation Sessions for Mental and Physical Health Benefits
Learn three simple techniques to get you started on a journey to a better well-being.medium.com

Julia E Hubbel

The Physical Cost of Outrage
It’s not pretty. And it might be killing us.medium.com

Jill Reid

Voice Your Own Opinion in Your Writing or the Message May be Lost
The story is yours to tell.medium.com

Dan Cadmus

If Your Pursuit is Happiness, Find Happiness in the Pursuit
Get lost in the process on the path to fulfillment.medium.com

John Teehan

Reach Your Goals By Eliminating These Bad Habits
No bad habit is insurmountable. Your goals are always within reach.medium.com

The Maverick Files

If Death is Our Wake-up Call, We’ll Always be Too-Little-Too-Late
And hitting snooze is not an optionmedium.com

Isaiah McCall

Are The Star Wars Prequels Better Than The New Films?
“I don’t like sand. It’s coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere.”medium.com

Nihan Kucukural

Don’t Worry About the Future
Your current concerns will be history.medium.com

Manas Bhardwaj

1 Simple Trick to Make a Good and Everlasting First Impression
Smile 🙂medium.com

Fareeha Arshad

I Was 23 and Couldn’t Stop Thinking About Death
Until the Japanese Senior Citizens Saved Memedium.com

Desiree Driesenaar

How 3 Secrets and Magic Metaphors Spark Our Stories
This image combines an eye and water. So, what about tears?medium.com

Terry Mansfield

A Killer Performance by Keanu Reeves in ‘John Wick Chapter 3: Parabellum’
Keanu Reeves delivers more entertaining mayhem in the most recent installment of the ‘John Wick’ action movie…medium.com

Britni Pepper

Don Trump Can Save the World
But he won’t. Here’s whymedium.com

Kristina Segarra

Pfizer Vaccine Won’t Help You Now
Why you can’t fall into a false sense of securitymedium.com

Terry L. Cooper

Seven French Students from Delaware, Canada, and Billy Joel
What could possibly go wrong in that equation?medium.com

Darcy Thiel

Release
Phew!medium.com

Mark C Watney

A Confession to My Wife
For Torturing Her with a Poem by Gerard Manley Hopkinsmedium.com

Jeanette C. Espinoza

The Common Bond Between A Black Woman and A“Karen”
We both want to reach for our phones to dial 911, but for very different reasons.medium.com

Casi Mclean

The Secret To Claiming Your Destiny
How to discover the passion to live your dreams.medium.com

Brylin Phillips

Practical Ways To Improve Yourself
Improve yourself with just a little practicemedium.com

Muda El Masry

Advices that changed my Writing style
3 Pieces of Advice that will help new and old writers reach their goals.medium.com

Drama Llama

The Cognative Theory a Bunch of Bananas
The ‘aha’ moment when the penny dropsmedium.com

Piyush Kamal🎖

How Can Perception Hacking Boost the Bottom Line?
Lessons from nature, airline, and amusement industrymedium.com

Yve Laran

New York City Moment I Miss
Friday Nights at the Moviesmedium.com

Kaz Matsune

These Are What I Was Able To Accomplish in 2020 Because of COVID (You Still Have Time To Do the…
I look more peaceful.medium.com

Tina Viju

This Holiday, Please Fill My Empty Chair
With Lifemedium.com

Marjorie J McDonald

How to Increase Your Productivity
Writing strategies to implement nowmedium.com

Crystal Jackson

The Things We Learned This Year We May Too Soon Forget
When 2020 is over, I hope we’ll remember what we learnedmedium.com

Dr Mehmet Yildiz

Imagine Sheldon On Medium
Reflections from the inner world of rowdy writers, editors, curators, publishers, and platform ownersmedium.com

Thewriteyard

Poetry and Walking
The Lockerbie Writers Poetry Safarimedium.com

Karen Madej

An Interview with Destiny
Celebrity guest presenter Madame Illume welcomes youmedium.com

Joe Luca

Sadness vs. Depression: Ain’t What They Used to Be
One Man’s Storymedium.com

Paul Thomas Zenki

Why Science Should Take the Soul Seriously
Long relegated to the realms of religion, myth, and superstition, the soul is actually our most useful concept for a…medium.com

Kevin Farran

The Donald Donald Nursery Rhyme
How Trump’s behavior will be sung in years ahead.medium.com

Luke Beling

3 Simple Ways to Radically Reduce Stress
You owe it to yourself.medium.com

Neil Shurley

Breath Mints
A short storymedium.com

Emmanuel A. Anderson

6 Things That When You Do You Can Be Great at Conversations
The skills that make one better at conversationsmedium.com

Simon Spichak

Lessons Learned from a Government Agency that Posts Surreal Memes on Social Media
How to make your messaging attractive to your target audiencemedium.com

Barnhill

The Way Forward
How (and why) treating the Green New Deal as a boogeyman only ensures we all lose.medium.com

Chris Holman

Should Education be Free?
How the country will benefit and pay for it; meanwhile, reducing inequality.medium.com

Karthick Nambi

I Am An Indian Dog
I was called an Indian dog by someone on Facebook for my opinion.medium.com

Shweta L

How The Brutal Communal Violence Changed My Life 24 Years Back
I saw with the naked eye they set my neighbor on fire.medium.com

Michele Thill

Change Your View On What You See
Take a NEW look on this old 2020 yearmedium.com

Erwin Leonardy

Mustering up the Temerity to Start a Startup in These Uncertain Times
This is the life-journey of a fledgeling tech-entrepreneur who attempts to go against the tide.medium.com

Cocoa Griot

My New Canvas
I decided natural is my new normal.medium.com

Dr Mehmet Yildiz

Stories from ILLUMINATION-Curated
Compiled by Dr Mehmet Yildiz — Editor in Chief Please enjoy and share. Recent submissions to ILLUMINATION-Curated Cocoa…digitalmehmet.com

Adam Tabriz, MD

The Rise of Industrial America and the Dawn of Individual Liberty
A Chronological Glance at the Inverse Relationship between Corporate Personification and the Individual…medium.com

Øivind H. Solheim

The Crowd
– we reach for the light
longing for clarity 
longing for what we do not seemedium.com

Douglas Pilarski

Can’t Buy a Hat
-blues lyricmedium.com

Jack Burt

The Great Human Race
Oblivionmedium.com

Rich Sobel

When is the Last Time You Talked About Axolotls?
Heck, do you even know what they are? I didn’t!medium.com

Charles Roast

I Had A Great Day Saturday
What’s wrong with me?medium.com

Regina Clarke

Apartheid In America: The Demon of White Privilege
We reap now our own desperate heritage as white people who have yet to come to terms with the darkness of our ancestors…medium.com

Julie Nyhus MSN, FNP-BC

Doomscrolling
The progress of negativity may be destroying youmedium.com

James G Brennan

Michael Tom Dillon
And his big auld haunted housemedium.com

Audrey Malone

The Not So Surprising Last Words of a Billionaire: Steve Jobs
What reaching the pinnacle of success truly meansmedium.com

Bhavna Narula

My Heart Is Bleeding
I wonder if spilling words will help stop itmedium.com

Liam Ireland

5 Ways How Illumination Curated Works For Advanced Writers
Illumination Curated, Where High Flying Writers Spread Their Wingsmedium.com

Francine Fallara

French Kiss
Universal Lovemedium.com

Terry L. Cooper

How I was Taught to Deal with Flashbacks When in the Middle of One
PTSD can really knock the wind out of you at times.medium.com

Nihan Kucukural

Is Time Speeding up? Have a child!
Or try these other meaningful ways to slow down your time.medium.com

Utpal Kumar

Zoom Video Meets Cause Rise in Plastic Surgery
Zoom Dysmorphia seems real.medium.com

Michele Thomas

The Leaves Beneath My Feet
Autumn’s last callmedium.com

James Jordan

The Best Opportunity is Right Now for Writers
Learn about the writing business from the history of Rock and Roll Musicmedium.com

Nabil Alouani

Why Literally Everything You Do Matters
Your impact on yourself and the world is greater than you think.medium.com

Maria Cross

Covid-19 and Vitamin D: What to do While You Wait for the Vaccine
Here’s what you need to know about the role of vitamin D.medium.com

Dr. Dion

Back to Life. Back to Reality. Back to the Here and Now.
In the late 1980s, R&B group Soul II Soul released a single entitled, Back to Life. The song had a simple refrain…medium.com

Teresa D Hawkes, Ph.D.

Insights at the Intersection of Science, Art & Religion.
A response to the Mind and Life Institute’s XXVth Dialogue with His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama, 2012medium.com

Douglas Pilarski

Make a Speech Like Desmond Tutu
It’s you and your audiencemedium.com

Leo Guinan

Reflecting on My Startup Journey: Week One
What the Hell am I Doing?medium.com

Vixen Lea

I want a man who wants to text me back
Why you are worth more than an afterthoughtmedium.com

Eira Braun-Labossiere 🌻

Pyjamas of Love and the Sugarplum Fairy Project
“Because every child deserves a new pair of pyjamas.”medium.com

Christopher Akinlade

Between Failure And Poverty of Dreams
That we may dream and daremedium.com

Jan M Flynn

How To Show Your Family and Friends You Love Them This Thanksgiving
Hint: from a distancemedium.com

Dr. Manishi Pallavi

Happy Diwali
Diwali is a festival of lights over darkness, so fill your heart with the light on this auspicious occasion.medium.com

Piyush Kamal🎖

The Subtle But Practical Art of Meaningful Detachment
The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror; it grasps nothing; it refuses nothing; it receives, but doesn’t keep…medium.com

Suntonu Bhadra

5 TED Talks To Watch Today
covering diverse ideas, worth spreadingmedium.com

Henery X

Self-mastery
Every Move That’s Made Should Be Meant To Elevate Us Highermedium.com

CR Mandler MAT

The Day I Screened My Calls
A poemmedium.com

Edward Robson, PhD

5 Reasons Dating is a Waste of Time
For single peoplemedium.com

Helen Cassidy Page

Where Did All My Average Reading Time Go?
Did I become a cr*p writer overnight or is Medium messing with the algorithm again?medium.com

Yve Laran

Voluntary Confinement
Grateful to remain safe and soundmedium.com

Mark Alden

5 Reasons Donald Trump Will Run For President In 2024
Don’t say goodbye to the maga hats just yetmedium.com

Rich Sobel

Can We Use Ancient DNA to Recover Extinct Plants and Animals?
Using DNA to recover lost traits and maybe even whole animals is not out of the question anymore. But should we?medium.com

Tom Handy

Why Sex and Money Will Make You Question Everything You Know
A look at why sex sells and money does notmedium.com

Lynda Coker

Why Order Bumps are Draining Your Wallet and How to Stop the Leakage
7 Ways to break our love affair with order bumps and upsellsmedium.com

Paul Abela, MSc

Will Your Life Improve Under a New President?
The Republicans and Democrats represent different sides of the same coin. What America needs is a new coinmedium.com

Mayur sarda

In my 30’s I am thinking in a lot different way than I used to in my 20’s.
In my 20’s, I have made many blunders like any other 20 something. I was never honest with myself, but now in my 30’s I…medium.com

Sandra Barrett

The Squad-Empowering People One Tweet At A Time
Other politicians could learn a lot from them, if they choose to listen.medium.com

Bill Abbate

A Fresh Look at Air in the World
Interesting facts most people do not knowmedium.com

Kiranjeet Kaur

20 enzymes that are used in the food & Beverages industry
Enzymes name and its usesmedium.com

Francine Fallara

Ascending
Slowly but surely ascendingmedium.com

Steve QJ

The Left Still Doesn’t Understand Trump’s Appeal
Dismissing Trump’s supporters as racist is way too simplisticmedium.com

Sebastian Purcell, PhD

The Aztecs and Stoics Explain How to Gain in Happiness (Even While Losing Daily Joys)
The Key Is To Interrupt Your Thoughtsmedium.com

Roger A. Reid, Ph.D.

Why You Should Write Your Story, Even If You Think Others Won’t Get It
How to get past your doubts and give readers what they want.medium.com

Rebecca Stevens A.

You’ve Got Loads Of White Privilege, Start Sharing It!
White privilege is like winning billions of dollars in the lottery. You’ll never be able to spend it all in your…medium.com

Mehmet Yildiz

One Core Leadership Capability To Empower Writers
How three essential points can get you started, increase your confidence, and sustain your motivation for any…medium.com

Carolyn Hastings

When Love is a Pain in the ‘But’
my pre-emptive, retrospective admission to inadvertent plagiarism and copyright infringement — or notmedium.com

Dr. Preeti Singh

The Dream and The Reality
Life is dutymedium.com

Sarah Towle

Why this Rio Grande Valley Lifer Swerved Off a Secure Career Path to Save Lives at the Border…
When victims of Trump & Co’s cruel immigration policies got stranded in Mexico, Gaby Zavala stood up for their rightsmedium.com

Leah Njoki

Surprising Things I’ve Learned as a Kenyan Living in Australia
What’s it’s like to be Black in the land down under.medium.com

Matt Stevenson

Elon Musk Is a Better Marketer than Steve Jobs
Three marketing rules from Tesla’s Cybertruck announcementmedium.com

Deborah Levine

A Bermudian-American Poem for Thanksgiving
We came to America without a clue
When November rolled around and Thanksgiving, too
Stories of pilgrims sailing in hope…medium.com

Jonah Angeles

I Spent Seven Years in University and All I Got was a Useless Psychology Degree
The story of how university made me lose my mind, and how I got it back and found myself in the process.medium.com

Douglas Pilarski

My Polish Hill
Say it in Polish: Polskie Wzgórzemedium.com

Chris McQueen

How I’ve Found The Key To Successful Relationships
What you can do to unlock this door to deeper bondingmedium.com

Johannes Mudi

A Tale Of Xavier
A poem in honour of a friend on her birthdaymedium.com

Abena D

6 Ultimate Steps For Success in Life
Success is more than money and material thingsmedium.com

Robert Trakofler

Totems
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Rory Spanton

A Top Scientific Journal Just Published a Racist Algorithm
How a flawed face recognition AI sparked scientific outragemedium.com

Desiree Driesenaar

Hey Girls, Can We Please Start Birthing the New World?
She is ready to be born!medium.com

Øivind H. Solheim

#StoptheLies, #StopTheSteal
Stop the Trump Supporters’ Shameful Offensive to Discredit the Electionmedium.com

Nicole Chardenet

How To Become A Canadian
Had enough with the Ignited States? Then it’s time to break up. Here’s how.medium.com

Arpit Ravichandran

5 Ways to De-Stress Yourself
A guide to living the ‘Happy Life’medium.com

Paul Myers MBA

Not Everything New Is Good for You
A story about the pain of innovationmedium.com

Muad Arshad

Did Trump promote ‘Crab-Mentality’?
“If I can’t have it neither can you”medium.com

Petr Swedock

Who Is Going To Do The Hard Work?
Reconstruction Begins. Again.medium.com

Belinda Mallasasime

Knowing When To Let Go of A Dream
I became a Dreamer after listening to ‘Super Trouper’ by Abbamedium.com

John M Dabbs

Signaling The End for Apple
The M1 Chip and the unprecedented end of a good runmedium.com

James Jordan

Why do we Need Permission?
Stuck between doing what I want and doing what I shouldmedium.com

Jordan Mendiola

The Importance of Being Picky on Who You Spend Your Time With
Be picky because you only have one life and a limited amount of time on Earth — might as well make it count.medium.com

Mukundarajan V N

The Gut Instinct Is Not a Wild Guess
Our gut feelings may be more rational than we thinkmedium.com

Rosennab

Seeking Help For Emotional Wellness
Hiding is not healingmedium.com

Erin King

Why Trumps Followers Are Just Adult Toddlers And It Has Nothing To Do With Politics
Nearly 10 years in the daycare business has explained everything.medium.com

Tree Langdon

Ode to the Sun God
Life Goes Onmedium.com

Dr John Rose

Stories From My Head.
My Thoughts and Meditations on Creating Story Ideas.medium.com

Jamie Golob

Why Shiva Lingam Have Earned the Title of God Stone
Awakening Kundalinimedium.com

Sophia Lill

7 Alex Trebek Inspiring Quotes
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Keira Fulton-Lees

In Mila’s Eyes
Poetry on Medium ∙ Autism ∙ Child Abuse and Neglectmedium.com

Jennifer Friebely

My Fantasy Job Writing For Joe Biden
Hey, you never knowmedium.com

Tom Hanratty

Master Bao and the Lessons of Power
Spiritual power cannot be taken. It can only be given awaymedium.com

Viki Hines

What My Son’s Death Has Taught Me About Life
From grief to gratitude — Lessons learned the hardest way possiblemedium.com

Viktor Marchev

5 Easy Ways To Be Less Frustrated While Working At Home
#3: Get Rid Of Perfectionismmedium.com

Bill Myers

Government Testimony: Check Reality Before You Panic
Will traffic flow really double & increase golf-cart vs. auto accidents in the retirement community?medium.com

Vixen Lea

Finding the Razzle-Dazzle
When plain old sobriety just isn’t enoughmedium.com

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Forget About Fixing Your Life: Burn it to Ashes & Start From Rock Bottom
You Deserve Better Than What ‘Others’ Say You Deservemedium.com

J.P. Novice

Don’t Study For A Master’s Degree If You Can’t Find Any Job, Here’s Why
Do not escape reality. Put your head down, and keep hunting.medium.com

Simon Spichak

The Planet Where it Rains Rocks
On K2–141b it rains rocks and the oceans are lavamedium.com

Bebe Nicholson

Why Nelson Mandela Can Model Our Way Forward
“Minds that seek revenge destroy states, while those that seek reconciliation build Nations.′′ Nelson Mandelamedium.com

Godofredo Rojas

The Power to Say *No* to the Wrong Money
And get great things.medium.com

Randy Shingler

Arc Of History
Arc of history always being on our side
Inevitably moving towards what is right
Knowing arc germinates wide and deep…medium.com

Nicole Chardenet

Why Are Some Women Still So Afraid Of Personal Power?
It’s time to stop asking for it nicely. Just seize it, dammit. And stop voting for The Patriarchy.medium.com

Rosa Walker

I Tried to Unplug My Family From Devices for One Day
Learn from my attempts to disconnectmedium.com

Geetika Sethi

Things That Make You Human
Are always the things that do not make you needymedium.com

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Stick Bug
An excellent and fantastic creaturemedium.com

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Understanding the Value of Your Writing
Writing is an art; find your purpose in writingmedium.com

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8 Stoic Quotes That Can Change Your Life
Timeless pearls of wisdom from ancient Athens.medium.com

Agnes Laurens

Pizza Delicious
Tanka about pizza.medium.com

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Into the Crypt of Language
The secrets of creationmedium.com

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Authentic Happiness Comes From Speaking Your Truth
The power of speech generates order from chaos.medium.com

Cairo Walker

Face the Fear and Accelerate Past the Rate of Change
The COVID-19 Pandemic sped-up trends that were already happening — reduced office space, digital acceleration, and…medium.com

Keith R Wilson

Looking for My Father in Emerson’s Essays
I recently opened for the first time, a volume of essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson from the collection of old books in my…medium.com

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A Chance to Be a Celebrity
A novel experience at a beauty contestmedium.com

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Blue Solace
Shades of inspiration and peacemedium.com

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secret sky
no one knows we are heremedium.com

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How Introverts Can Thrive in an Extrovert-Dominant Workplace
Good news — there is still a need for your quiet creative approach in solitude.medium.com

Emily Wilcox

A Boy Named Lilac
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Utpal Kumar

Find Better Reasons Behind Other’s Functioning
It will help in avoiding demeaning or even idolizing others.medium.com

Kenneth Silvestri

Illumination Curated: Alternative Healing
Similia Similibus Curentur: The Gift of Homeopathymedium.com

Michele Thill

To Look Through the Eyes of Love
It’s a NEW way for us to see…medium.com

Mayank Pamnani

12 Major Reasons Why You Cannot Sleep and How To Deal With It
Understand your sleep better.medium.com

Roger A. Reid, Ph.D.

Still Looking for That Dream Job? Maybe I Can Save You Some Time
3 truths I learned after searching for fifty yearsmedium.com

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Only A Writer Would Have This List
A list of places I’ve been, things I’ve done and that have happened to me over 72 years that is of interest to no one.medium.com

Liz Porter

Letter of Gratitude to Dr. Mehmet Yildiz and Illumination-Curated
You’re making a difference, Sir; I thought you should knowmedium.com

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ILLUMINATION Fiction Club
An invitation to fiction writers to unite and collaborate for productive funmedium.com

James G Brennan

Dropping the Fart
A chaotic response to “chaos”medium.com

Kevin Farran

12 Thoughts When Spooning at Dawn
How to know if the choice was right, a review when cuddling after 40 years.medium.com

Aric D. Mayer

Heal An Ill
Eat this haikumedium.com

Payal Koul

Reclaim your Rhythm in life
Pause!!medium.com

Shrish Tariq

Plant Immunity: Qualitative and Quantitative Resistance
Plant immunity consists of dual resistance mechanisms that are qualitative and quantitative in nature.medium.com

Jacquelyn Lynn

Authors: Are You a One-Trick Pony?
If you’re writing a book, don’t be a one-trick pony.medium.com

Jack Holmes

You Shall Not Pass: Common Law Rights To Privacy In Your Home
A Historymedium.com

Sumera Rizwan

American Elections 2020
How our world sees itmedium.com

Jim Woods

Find Inspiration In Your Creative Family Tree
Think like your creative heroes to find untapped creativitymedium.com

Jeanette C. Espinoza

Dear White Women: Now That We Have Your Attention, May I Have a Word? (Part Four)
Five more thoughts from the heart of a Black womanmedium.com

Kevin Buddaeus

China Is Keeping A Close Watch On The 2020 US Elections
The sleeping dragon is waiting for his moment to strikemedium.com

Viraj Acharya

How To Get Yourself Out Of A Rut
It’s more than just taking a breakmedium.com

Abena D

How to End the Cycle of Relationship Self-Sabotage
Work on yourself before you delve into a serious relationship. It might help you.medium.com

Josh Kiev

The Journey of Traveling Ailments
The Battle of “Old-trition”medium.com

Bhavna Narula

How to Become Employee of the Year?
Anger shares his proven strategiesmedium.com

Jean Carfantan

The Separation Game
Longing for unitymedium.com

Jim West

We Desperately Need Election Reform
It’s easy to do and it must be donemedium.com

Anu Anniah

5 Interesting Ways to Travel From Your Living Room
Traveling back in time to journeys from long ago is a great way to experience old travels in a new light!medium.com

Jeff Herring

“I Traded My Couch for a Mouse”
How a Counseling Psychologist Became One of the Good Guys Onlinemedium.com

Adebola Alabi

5 Ways to Build Resilience During Tough Times
Resiliency is your belief in yourself and your ability to achieve your goals.medium.com

Rebecca Stevens A.

How My African Identity Was Erased By White Supremacy
Colonialism is another form of white supremacy that seeks to establish white culture as superior to black and brown…medium.com

Christopher D. Connors

What Jeff Bezos Can Teach Us About Success and Innovation
Jeff Bezosmedium.com

Mukundarajan V N

Empathy, the Emperor of All Virtues, Has a Dark Side
Rational compassion seems a better choice than empathy in making a difference in the worldmedium.com

Rebecca Sealfon

Breakthrough Stories Make All the Difference
A couple of popular pieces can really raise your profile as a social media writer. Here’s my story, as well as my…medium.com

Tee, Conscious Creative

Do You Need A Quitting Coach To Help You Help Other People Exit?
Firings can be drama-free & allow the fired person keep their dignitymedium.com

Aurora Eliam, CMP

Wisdom on Embracing the World With Love and Understanding
Meet Amma, the mother of millionsmedium.com

Debbie’s Reflection

The Party Never Stops in Madrid
Why we love Madrid so much!medium.com

Akeena M.

Clichés May Be Annoying but They Persist Because They’re True
Here is my take on one of them.medium.com

Anne Bonfert

The Last Day of Freedom
The story about the last hike before they took our freedommedium.com

Tania Miller

How Expectation Shapes Our Life
Expectations create our reality and change our futuremedium.com

Matthew Royse

10 Simple Things You Can Do Today to Become Smarter
The secret lies in your daily habits not how much time you havemedium.com

Jessica Cote

Here’s A Little Ditty About A True Story
You wanna hear gruesomemedium.com

Jamie Golob

5 Ways to Stomp Out Anxiety and Win Back Your Happiness
Every now and then we all need a little help finding our smilemedium.com

Jake Mura

4 Squares by Gary Vaynerchuk About Career and Happiness
as always, Gary tries to lead us to happiness instead of empty wealth, often called “success” nowadays.medium.com

Brandon B. Keith

Don’t You Dare Open Another Browser Tab, App, or Document
A Strategy to Reclaim Your Time, Focus, and Confidencemedium.com

Paroma Sen

The Moment
The One That Was The Truest By Farmedium.com

Aaron Meacham

Treating the Poison of American Masculinity with American Literature
How can diverse male literary voices help us have conversations about positive masculinity?medium.com

Zachary Minott

How to Effectively Lose All Your Friends and Destroy Your Relationships in 7 Different Ways
A warning from the perspective of a former scumbag that has succeeded in trashing and crippling his past relationshipsmedium.com

John Green

Give the precious gift of your attention
Stop talking and really listenmedium.com

Dr Mehmet Yildiz

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20 selected stories by editorial team for discerning readersmedium.com

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Jack Krier

7 Effective Night Habits That Will Ensure Morning Success
A productive morning starts the night beforemedium.com

Jess Tam

5 Best Deepak Chopra Advice For Awakening Your Consciousness
“Holding on to anything is like holding on to your breath. You will suffocate. The only way to get anything in the…medium.com

Lucia Siochi

Who I Am Led To Why I Write
Introducing Lucia Siochi, Writermedium.com

Adam Tabriz, MD

Is Populism riding over the Free Speech?
The use of populist in various sociopolitical domains as a nickname to debunk discord or rationalize suppressing…medium.com

Jax Hudur

How to Become the Machiavellian Prince at Work
Put on your ‘ungodly’ hat to preserve your integritymedium.com

Neil Shurley

Happy National Donut Day!
November 5 is the most delicious day of the year.medium.com

Maria Marmo

COVID-19 — Welcome to the Hunger Games!
Life is a double-entry system where every loss is someone else’s gainmedium.com

Danni Pelcher

The Dirty F-Word
An exploration of the word ‘feminist’ and what that should mean to you.medium.com

Tracy Stengel

My Farewell to Being A Smith
We had a long run, but we needed to part waysmedium.com

Anita Durairaj

How to Stand Out as a New Writer on a Crowded Platform
Think of yourself as a small business trying to survive the competitionmedium.com

EP McKnight, MEd

The US 2020 Election of the Century
A day of much anticipation, every vote needs to be counted to tell the truth of the people and by the peoplemedium.com

Blaine Coleman

It is October 2020 and I Have to Wonder, Where Did the Year Go?
Almost election day and it seems like yesterday was a lifetime agomedium.com

Ahsan Chaudhry

That Plastic Bag Scene from American Beauty … I Need to Remember
I saw the movie “American Beauty” 12 years ago. Recently I came across the shopping bag scene on YouTube. YouTube has…medium.com

Marijke McCandless

Mindfulness Helps Unlock the Feisty Writer Within
Meditation helps us dis-identify from our self-critical voices and encourages us to pay attention: both fodder for good…medium.com

Sidd Chung

If You Want to Get Better at Life, You Have to Become an UberEats Bike Courier
Helmets are overratedmedium.com

Lisa Holliday

Mama Cass Did Not Die By Choking On a Ham Sandwich
The true story of Mama Cass Elliotmedium.com

Dew Langrial

7 Ways to Be a Hero Without Doing Anything You Don’t Want to Do
You have to challenge the idea of a stereotypical heromedium.com

Rebecca Romanelli

Dreams are Our Allies, Even if We Don’t Remember Them
Dreams create the link between our subconscious and conscious mind and can affect our emotions and thoughts after…medium.com

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