MONDAY MUTTERINGS, Oct 30, 2023 wk#44
Recaps, tunes, old cowboy movies, & reader's questions.
Good morning, my posse!
My posse, of course, consists of peeps and buds.
Peeps are casual friends, followers on Medium or Twitter, and other places.
My buds are a closer group of subscribers at medium, here, or anywhere that is not dependent on the platform itself to let us communicate.
For instance, Facebook can decide to make a change in its algorithms, and POOF! You may no longer exist. So a platform like this one is much more practical and valuable to both of us.
I don’t like to miss something I am waiting for.
Anyway, here’s where we are right now in the architecture of this newsletter.
This weekend I read an article by someone who said that she subscribed to the newsletter of a certain writer, not because of the information there, but because she liked the way this writer presented it. Her style, her writing voice.
So this is me. I’m a fairly well-educated old goober, a curmudgeon fighting with the calendar.
I am struggling with the health of my body as I get older.
I am fighting with the economy to be retired or less active and still afford my house and some food.
Of course, as my journey continues to be chronicled by me in my usual, informal style relating to the three areas, HEALTH, my journey getting older, MONEY, the creator economy, making a living with my laptop, and SENILITY STRUGGLES, my day to day life, Along with grouchy observations for free.
I will still continue to work on the actual nuts and bolts and the construction of this letter, and encourage your feedback and suggestions.
thanks,
-don
If I Just Write for My Own Enjoyment, then Why Do I Check My Stats Page So Much?
Don’t Believe Advice from Writers
https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/chekhov-anton-biography-nixon-blaisdell
https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll/cc-lt-dayhoff-102923-20231028-ph3rcf2vifdhrcytit774to2oi-story.html
By most accounts, I probably should be dead right now.
What Are Some of the Signs of MS?
What are Some of the Signs of a Stroke?
What Can MS Patients Do to Make a Living?
https://www.biogen.ca/en-ca/disease-areas/multiple-sclerosis.html
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John Wayne
This space is for you.
Remember, there are no stupid questions, only stupid answers.
And thanks for not pointing that out every chance you get.
A reader did ask who I thought I was, to be talking about all this stuff about which I am talking. About. So, in response, I will say,
“I’m a big-time writer, Who do you think you are, asking me all these stupid questions?”
⭐Publish & Profit: A Beginner's Guide to Making Your First $1000 Writing on Medium (affiliate link.)
And don’t forget I’ve had a stroke and sometimes I publish all out of my head.
Keep those questions coming, and tell your remaining friends about us!
Remember, this newsletter is completely free! If you ever begin to feel guilty about being such a taker and not a giver, I believe there is a place at the bottom where you can buy me a cup of coffee.
Like THAT will support the arts.
Thanks,
-don, changing what I can change, laughing at what I can’t.