Writing
Don’t suffer scrolling through dozens of Medium’s new profile pages. My table-of-contents (TOC) includes a brief synopsis with my top stories + a list of all others.
Synopsis
- A Medium website bug on Nov 13, 2020 does not add new stories to your profile if you have too many pinned. They say to unpin all stories, but based on experiment, I believe the limit is 5 pinned stories.
- Medium has made it extremely difficult for a new reader to see your entire portfolio. I’ve listed here all of my stories by category, title and subtitle with links. (Last updated January 28, 2021)
How the TOC works
The most significant stories in each category will include a short synopsis, not the full screen with picture as shown in Medium’s profile. …
Diabetes; Health
Daily activities, from meal times & content to lifesaving intervention. You’re not diabetic but know someone who is — your life just changed.
Synopsis
- Sometime in your life, you will need to know about diabetes. My wife and I, coworkers, neighbors and strangers have had to contend with everything here. This article covers everything you need to know. It’s already changed the life for two early reviewers.
- Most articles offer advice to the diabetic. This is for everyone else…
My introduction to diabetes
My wife of 20 years is Type 1 diabetic and we, coworkers, neighbors and strangers have had to contend with everything in this article. I knew nothing about it in the beginning. Diabetes was just an impersonal term. My examples come from personal experience.
Most…
Health
How I dropped my weight 40 pounds and kept it off for 31 years without special diets or exercising
Synopsis
- Diets don’t work because one day they will end. This article explains how to identify and change things permanently. Once you’ve decided what weight you want, it provides tips to handle your everyday meals, substitution techniques, methods to stay on track, and how I handled two remissions. During the shutdown, I lost 7 pounds because larger restaurant meals were factored into my normal week and home meals were smaller. I show many detailed, usable examples. Good luck.
I start to notice my weight
People around me have talked about their diets for years, but nothing ever changes. Why?
Diets don’t work
Because they attack the wrong…
Personal Philosophy
It’s the compliment everyone sees. Actions speak louder than words.
Synopsis
- How do other people see you when you are out in public? Do you look happy to be together? Do you pay attention to each other? A simple story on how to improve your relationship.
How others see us
People, i.e. strangers, frequently comment on how they love watching us dancing together. Odd since I don’t know how to dance. One lady even gave us a red rose.
That is today. It started years ago.
During our vacation in Cancun, Mexico, the waiter told us that we were not like most couples. All of the staff had noticed. We asked what he meant. …
Politics
Women risk all for sex, men risk nothing. Equalize the risks, then both sides, fleeing the hysteria & faulty logic, will find a solution.
Synopsis
- Someone said, “Antiabortionists are so worried about the fetus, but don’t care about the baby after it is born.” The Supreme Court made one big mistake with Roe-v-Wade when addressing the first half of that statement. They inserted a fuzzy middle between two solid decisions — room for constant bickering. I’ll address that. Also, the Court, Congress, religions, nobody, seriously mentions the other half of the abortion problem. This article identifies both parts and proposes a workable solution.
A unique approach
My proposal could change the entire debate, culture and infrastructure of the United States.
Insanity is doing the same thing over and…
Civility?
The study is based on 1,051 comments from four conflicting, controversial articles. Only 50% were logical responses to something!
Recently, my letter-to-the-editor was published in the Villages-News, an online local newspaper. Readers are encouraged to make comments. Some were the most hate-filled, ignorant posts I have ever seen, even worse than Twitter. Here are a few examples. I discovered I was a:
Radical Democrat, RINO, communist, Nazi, demoRat, Trumpublican, Brain addled leftist, uneducated cultist, QAnon, Democult, racist fool, homophobe, white supremacist, MAGA, tRumptard, and Republican criminal. Then, I should go back to middle school, visit the priest or Rabbi, lay off the drugs, or drink some Kool-Aid (kill myself). …
Racism, sexism, and other prejudices
Cursory speech, thoughts and slogans won’t work to change the momentum
I grew up in an all-white town in Indiana. I still am embarrassed by a racist remark I made 51 years ago. It was part of the language and I didn’t even realize what I said until later.
For me, it was a wake-up call!
Racism, sexism, and other prejudices are built into the language and culture. From that time on, I looked for such prospects.
It takes years, decades and centuries to change a culture significantly. Unless a person is open to change and has thought about it, change will not happen. …
Impeachment
Three attacks on the United States in 80 years. Impeachment’s important because that one was internal.
The United States has been attacked three times during the lifetime of some of the Senators sitting in judgment.
Two attacks were external and one was domestic. Although the external attacks took more lives, the internal one is still having major repercussions. The Senate is in a position to make it even worse.
The attacks — Ranked
Although deaths are important, the ranking is based on the immediate and potential impact on the entire country and people not directly involved.
- Pearl Harbor. It showed just how blind the United States was about the rest of the world. It resulted in 2,403 deaths. Even more…
What a surprise
Studies actually found a pattern in 20-year stages. We surprisingly reversed its final stage!!
At one time, I was terrified to get on a dance floor, speak in front of people, and do any other activity that put me in the spotlight. That was true even if I was in the middle of a crowd, like on a dance floor. Other dancers around me were watching, judging!
That all changed around age 38 when I had to teach a computer class from videos at work. The first day, I said “Please fill out these forms.” Those papers rattled, they shook so much. …
Setting Precedents
This is not about a single election, but the values of each senator and integrity of the Constitution.
More than anybody else in the United States, the President’s words have meaning. Some people, especially brainwashed fanatics, will believe anything and, as we saw on January 6, follow instructions.
Republicans are supposed to be the Law and Order party, but most tried to ignore their duties under the Constitution when put to the test.
It appears the statute of limitations applies to the Charge most of the time, but not the trial. Other laws apply for a speedy trial. The impeachment was passed before Trump was out of office and the trial was scheduled quickly. …
Bill Myers
William “Bill” Myers, Analyzes all, Programmer, retired. If you learn anything new, find enjoyment, have a new thought, then I’m successful. Photo: 1st article
