Focus and Organization — I’m no spring chicken. I’ve been over the hill and back a few times now, which means we didn’t have computers when I was a little bitty child. They didn’t really become a thing until I was a bit older and even then, at my secretarial job while I was…

A Conversation With Depression — “The heaviest of burdens crushes us, we sink beneath it, it pins us to the ground. But in love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man’s body.The heaviest of burdens is therefore simultaneously an image of life’s most intense fulfillment. The heavier the…

It brought out the best and the worst in me — I was twenty-two years old and ready to break free. I’d been given a taste of freedom and was ravenous for more. For the first time in a few years, I was in a play again appearing as Portia in a local production of The Merchant of Venice. Nothing made…

The things I’d do for fame — There were only a couple of photos taken, proof of this story, but I’ve long since destroyed them. It would do no good having that piece of history floating around — what, me in my poor man’s Barbarella get up and all. I was a Hollywood actress, see. No, scratch…

I was looking to fill a void in my life — Sometimes you meet someone and your souls just click. Matty Bee was one of those someones for me. We were work colleagues — associate producers for a couple of CNN news magazine show in the late nineties called CNNdotCom and People in the News. Our jobs were the same at…

More was never good enough — I’ve been on two honeymoons. Two men. Two marriages. Two honeymoons. Two divorces. As I’ve aged, I’ve become more retrospective about my past—my mistakes, my successes, hopes and dreams, where I’ve been, and where I longed to be. Two men. Two marriages. The men couldn’t have been any different. Each…

The Memoirist’s first week in the Boost program starts off with a bang! — Following Christopher Robin’s announcement last week that we were chosen to join the Medium Boost Beta program, we’re proud to announce that all five of our recommended stories received a boost. These five stories — four from The Memoirist and one from Age of Empathy — may receive anywhere from…

The Essential Medium Directory, Yana Bostongirl’s Column, QuickTips, & Pub Crawl — We’ve had a few changes around the QuickTalk headquarters so I wanted to send out a quick newsletter to highlight what our current features are and what changes have been made. Hold on to your hats friends, get ready for this fast ride….

Spotlighting Stories, May Writing Prompt, and Celebrating Mental Health Awareness — May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Since 1949, the United States has observed Mental Health Awareness Month during the month of May to provide support, education, policy advocacy, and fight stigma. This year, NAMI’s (National Alliance on Mental Health) theme for Mental Health Awareness Month is More Than Enough.