You suspect a campaign has been launched to destroy your good name. What’s your plan? — How could they do this to me? If that’s the thought you’ve been having over and over, this article is for you. Someone’s been going behind your back saying terrible, untrue things about you to your friends, your family, your coworkers. It may seem like they’re trying to pull your…

Corporate negligence caused the temporary closure of stores depended upon by the impoverished — What if you had no way to get the food you needed to live, at prices which you could afford? Most of you reading this have access to a big-box or at least a medium-sized grocery store. You can shop for meat cut by the in-store butcher. You have access…

How such advice caused me to turn my back on a woman who needed me — The mid-to-late ’00s were the prime years of dating “gurus,” although many of them are around to this day. Linguistics expert Paul Ross, known by his stage name Ross Jeffries at the time, was selling Speed Seduction products, telling guys what to say to get women in bed — fast…

And there is great danger in trying — “I know a woman who possesses many of the traits you describe,” read a private note attached to my recent article Covert Narcissists — 7 Quotes to Empower Their Victims. “I know I can help her.” NOOOOOOOOOO! Believing you can help a covert narcissist is an extremely dangerous mindset to…

Fellow writers, have you had the same experience? And what does this say about us as a society? — I recently conducted an audit of my nearly 200 articles’ stats. I wanted to see which topics, keywords, and key phrases did well, so that I could search for similar ideas to write about. I thought it would be a fun exercise. Given my background in math, I love crunching…

Helping you make sense out of an experience that makes no sense at all — “How could they do this to me? How could they do this to me???” It’s the distressed call of a victim of a covert narcissist in the wild. I know it well. It’s a call I’ve made many times. The complete and utter confusion and frustration. The feeling that your…

When you have plenty of ideas, but little motivation to convert them into articles — It’s one thing to go days or weeks without writing because you don’t have any strong article or topic ideas. Been there, done that. But what do you do when you have plenty of ideas, yet you lack the motivation to sit down in front of the computer and start…

Except for very specific types of articles, under the current payout plan — “Writers — Don’t Miss Out on a Chance to Earn on this Exciting New Platform,” headlines in my Medium Daily Digest have read over the past couple of weeks. The “exciting new platform” is Simily. It’s an online content creation platform with an editor similar to that of Medium. Although…

If you let it, you’ll never live up to your potential — Years ago, I was in a bad place in my life. I was on a career path that I hated. I compensated by staying up way too late at night at the bars. Also, I had a taste for a particular brand of rotgut cinnamon whiskey, a whiskey whose makers…