Don’t make readers suffer scrolling through dozens of your profile pages. Drill down to a category of interest here. — How this Master TOC is organized Most Popular - TOC with most reads and a couple of my favorites Just Published - TOC with links to recent articles Synopsis - description of this TOC Biography - about me link Categories - link to each category TOC (too many articles for the master)

How do others see you? Do you look happy & pay attention to the other? Everyone sees the compliment. 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…

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.

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…

Use a new, more effective approach. — The protest signs say, “My Body, My Choice” & “Privacy” plus many others listed in the first reference. Interesting, emotional, but the same old thing. Nobody’s listening out of boredom! Similar arguments were used in legislatures and courts. All ignored. Here are three new points. One should be very powerful…

A whole article claimed showing different subtitles for the same article is a bug. It’s not. — There is no ironclad industry standard for displaying a shortcut subtitle to your story. In his story, Watch Out, Medium Is Screwing Up, RN Manchester claimed that varying subtitles is a bug costing you reads. It’s not a bug. The display differs from app to app and even different programs…

My lifetime goal: not to be tortured to death. Have an Advanced Directive. — This article is about a mother, daughter and son — none related to the author. Names are intentionally not included. Synopsis The retired mother went dancing every night, had a nice house, had no trouble getting around, had many friends, and sang karaoke every Wednesday night. The dance floor was always…

How to meet both goals — I recently discovered Burk’s article that followers come back to a profile looking for the writer’s most recent story. If you have five stories pinned, they have to scan through them every time. Frustrating if you are using a device with a small screen. The Pinned feature was originally set…

Please don’t create armed chaos throughout the country by abdicating your responsibility (US Mail to each Justice 5/31/2022) — Dear Justices Roberts, Thomas, Breyer, Alito, Sotomayor, Kagan, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Barrett I am writing because the Supreme Court has never addressed two major errors in the original Roe-v-Wade ruling. Instead of fixing those errors, the leaked draft indicates that the Court plans to abdicate its role and create chaos by…