Everyone needs a Karen Walker or two — “Well, well, well. Look what the cat cleaned up, showered, exfoliated, powdered, lipsticked, Gucci’d and dragged in.” — Karen Walker, Will and Grace Season 1. Articles describing how to identify narcissistic people and toxic relationships dominate our feeds. Their popularity is increasing in line with our desire to detoxify and…

An impassioned plea to non-teacher folk — Last Saturday, I’m sitting having dinner with another family when an acquaintance of the other family walks by. We all start a friendly conversation as you do. The parents of both families sat at the table are teacher families. …

Can you still read an article without a list to guide you? — I recently read a nice piece, with a ton of great tips from Christina M. Ward on how to get more engagement from readers. Because engagement and readers engaging with our stories is what we all want right? Well not always. People don’t always write for others to read or…

But I did learn a couple of useful lessons — Fact: Keto gave me the body I had always wanted. But when I got it I realised I didn’t want it that much. Very much like the devil asking you to sell your soul in exchange for eternal beauty, Keto asks: How much are you willing to sacrifice to look…

Don’t jump ship until you’ve read my 7 tips for more love on Medium — Everyone comes to Medium for different reasons. Some of us are here to get something off our chest, or to raise awareness (hello An Injustice!- a brilliant publication if you’re here to shout). Some of us are here because we simply love writing, and many of us are addicted to…

Be wary of those who think they have all the answers to sobriety — I’ve had a break from Medium, and tonight, I decided to take a quick scroll through AINYF and catch up with some of the articles published during my brief hiatus. A quick scroll through shows how time is mentioned or referred to in many of the titles. Time and specifically…

appearance is everything — Writing online, be it Medium, Quora, Twitter, etc… is not just writing. Unfortunately, what you write and the quality of it is only part of it. I know that’s wrong and you don’t agree. And you won’t accept it. But here’s the thing, you absolutely don’t have to accept it…

or something — I’m aware that the concept of being something or somebody is subjective. Rather like poor or dumb. We think they’re easy to measure, but they’re totally based upon our current internal and external environment. So I know I’m in a bad mental space when I think like this. …

3 basic tips on getting to 100 followers — I was at the dawn of 2021 where you are now. …