For anyone else afraid to say it out loud For as long as I can remember I have shied away from calling myself a writer. I always wrote in journals growing up, then graduated to poetry and other teenage angst in high school. One day, my favorite English teacher published…

Vietnam vets didn’t get a hero’s welcome or treatment in a lot of cases — I grew up always hearing about my grandaddy’s time in WW2 in the Navy. I knew that my grandpa on my Mom’s side had served in the Navy too. I never knew my dad was a military veteran too until I was maybe nine or ten years old. He never…

Is this thing on? — I really don’t like writing these it turns out, this is my third attempt! Awkward introvert comfortable with oversharing *indirectly* oh sure, sign me up. But a full-on introduction is my idea of hell. You’re judging me already aren’t you? Anyway, hi, I’m Steff. What even is this picture? It’s…

I feel like a lot of us are wondering, and not getting many clear answers I found myself getting really fired up in the comments of a recent post about the changes at Medium. I realized that my anger and annoyance were somewhat misdirected and ultimately pointless, so I deleted…

When perfectly chosen music enhances great tv — I am partial to a good musical moment in a tv show, whether the show itself is a musical or not. I think I actually prefer random music moments in shows that aren’t strictly music based. I have a relatively small tolerance for some types of musicals/musical shows, but occasionally…

Shhhh, don’t wake them! Ok so hands up, I am still VERY new to Vocal Media. But I did something reckless today, if the feedback from my last post about joining Vocal is anything to go by. I went ahead and joined Vocal +. I KNOW, many people say it’s…

Death seems to be everywhere when you are in the middle of grief The Queen is Dead. Long Live the King! Huzzah, etc. Being in the middle of grieving a parent during the passing of a monarch has been, uh, interesting. It’s one of those times that makes me feel…

Medium, I’m bored without my “entity” heads/favorite writers missing from my feed and not impressed with the “improvements” around here so far I finally caved and joined Vocal Media today, mostly in a huff at the state of things on Medium at present. Did you know they have large cash…

No, I didn’t get healed yet Van Morrison I was listening to a Whitney Cummings podcast a while ago where she was talking about the death of her parents or one of her parents, and she said a friend said something to her at the time that helped her: she…