Being “Chosen for further distribution” sharply improves earnings. Here’s my story, my stats, and 4 valuable tips. — By the end of 2019, I’d written a handful of articles on Medium and amassed a collection of a few dozen reads. I had considered joining the Medium Partner Program (MPP) but it didn’t make sense to pay $5 a month to earn pennies. I was invisible, a ghost of…

Nobody jumps the line to fame and fortune. Write from personal experience because the best art comes from within. — I write because I need to write. It’s not for the money. Like crime, writing doesn’t pay. It’s a passion, an urge, an obsession, a Zen sort of thing. Writing is frustrating, aggravating, tormenting, and absolutely magnificent. I’m driven by a mysterious internal force I call my internal compulsion engine…

Announcing the winners of the Two Truths and a Lie contest I published a week ago. IMPORTANT: Don’t read this article until you’ve read the initial challenge: Two Truths and a Lie — Brian Feutz I can lie better than most politicians. You’ll never win this challenge…medium.com This viral challenge bouncing around the Mediumverse is to write an article about yourself that includes two truthful vignettes and one clever lie…

I can lie better than most politicians. You’ll never win this challenge… — I was nominated by a writing friend Rodrigo S-C to write an article sharing Two Truths and a Lie about my life. It seems appropriate to share this article in a publication that’s dedicated to stories that introduce us to others on the platform, “About Me Stories, hosted by Quy…

A compilation of 24k gold retirement and aging insights you can’t afford to ignore. — I just spent a fascinating week combing through all of the articles I’ve written on aging and retirement. That’s kind of my thing as a writer — retirement articles— I’ve written 60 of them so far. Going back through them all was like opening a time capsule. Some insights were…

The privileged life of a royal feline is sublime, and now that I’ve learned all his secrets I’ll use them to purrfect my retirement. — All my life I’ve been a dog guy. I love big dogs that jump all over you and run like the wind, slobbering, ears flapping as they gallop. Big dogs that gulp their diner like turbocharged vacuums and stare at me as if I’m God. But I have no dogs…

Sixty is the new twenty, there’s no such thing as “normal” anymore, and a cuddle or two might just save your life. — Sexuality is an important aspect of our lives — even in our later years. It is associated with better mental and physical health, happier relationships, and higher levels of personal satisfaction. For women, older age is related to a higher likelihood of orgasm. — Kinsey Institute study

Expenses, surprises, accomplishments, and failures — what I’ve learned, and what I’m expecting to face in the coming years. — It still seems like yesterday that I hung up from my final Zoom call with the team. I was free, liberated, unencumbered, bursting with wide-eyed schoolboy excitement. It wasn’t like the feeling you get when you leave for vacation — when work always lingers like a rash. It wasn’t even…

They call it that because “shoving a big fat finger up your ass” is a terrible marketing slogan — A normal man, which I consider myself to be, has seven holes in his body. The ones above the waist are two-way holes and the ones below are one-way. Or should be. Except once a year like salmon struggling up the boulder-strewn river to spawn, a highly educated doctor of…