How to build your follower numbers Like most new people here, I am learning about this place day-by-day. Six weeks ago, I began this journey hoping to find a new writing community that I would actually feel a part of and a sense of belonging. So far, I am certain…

I am old, as old as dirt as some of my grandchildren would have me believe. I am married to the same woman that I proposed to three hours after we met [she said yes]. We have three children who are now parents and going through the same pains as…

Love at First Sight — I had left Denman Island hours earlier, heading for Tofino on the west coast of Vancouver Island. Hitchhiking in the rain wasn’t much fun as I carried my guitar, with my backpack and pup tent soaking wet. It had been raining since the evening before. …

The Way of Saint James, France, 2012 — Life throws some curve balls turning a person’s life upside-down. My career as a university instructor in China had come to a crashing end at the beginning of 2012. …

Paying respects to those who sacrificed for an ideal called Freedom.

Some very strange and beautiful people. — I have a long relationship with Jungian psychology as many of my readers here are learning. Today I went searching for other Medium members who had a Jungian background. Sadly, almost all whom I found had posted very little and years ago. Like most of my real-life Jungian contacts, there…

An invitation to be a co-author — Early the next morning, I was slow to crawl out of bed. Though I had drunk more than usual, I hadn’t had too much during the party. When I made my way downstairs to make coffee, I saw Meaghan’s door wasn’t fully closed. I averted my eyes as I didn’t…

They say you can learn a lot about a person by seeing who their friends are. In real life on this side of the keyboard, I have only a small circle of friends — it has to be small in a town of only five hundred people. Here on Medium…