The juice is worth the squeeze — Recently, in a bout of curiosity, I sorted and scrolled back on my submission tracker list to see how long ago it was that I started seriously submitting my writing to literary magazines. 2011 was the earliest date on the list. Not that I hadn’t submitted work before that, but…

Remembering a San Francisco Blues legend — I remember the very first time I entered the Grant & Green Saloon, conveniently located at the corner of Green Street and Grant Avenue in the heart of North Beach in San Francisco. Still living in New Mexico then, I was on a business trip to the Bay Area and…

When a cover version gets my love — Over the past weekend, music correspondent and PR guy Eric Alper posed a question on Twitter that got me thinking:

But eat them, I must — Is it cool to talk about Vocal here on Medium? I don’t want to make a faux pas, but I just really want to talk about Vocal for a minute. …

Lit Up — August’s Prompt: Harvest Season — “I have to go,” he says, sitting up unexpectedly in my bed. “What?” I ask, both startled and insecure. He is way out of my league and I am still so inexperienced. I’ve never had a boyfriend and he certainly isn’t that. Not yet. “Can you smell it?” he asks. …

And the benefit of a small adjustment — When we said “I do” it was the best day of our lives. We took a modest honeymoon, yeah okay it was just a weekend backpacking trip, and then came home to our too small and much too dingy rental apartment. It took us five years to both save and…

Keeping an Eye Out — The sun, it hurts. It’s drumming into my skull and when I partially open my eyes, I realize that I am not in my bed. I am on the couch and this is not optimal. I think back but thinking hurts, too. I try to remember. We had a party…

And I’ve never felt more like George Washington — After working four years and six months at my Angel Investor-backed, cash-infused, market-disrupting employer, I finally qualified for benefits. Whew! I know, I know. As far as unpaid internships go, that was on the short side. After unironically eating too many Flintstone gummy vitamins from the company breakroom, my back…

Lessons from Shelter-In-Place — One of the benefits of my job is that I work from home one day a week, and have been doing so for just over seven years. It’s a wonderful perk. …