Holding new perspectives about the blessings of life.

It’s only a series of daily miracles and blessings that enables me to write these words to you at all. A few years before the pandemic was even a thing, I walked out of a job I had held for many years…

Marveling at the world anew.

The “me” of 5 years ago is gone. In its place is someone I never even believed I could become. …

Let go of the need for complexity and criticism.

It seems everywhere you look on Medium these days, there’s some new variation of article with a title like: “Follow these X steps and make Y dollars”, or “The definitive guide to writing for a living” and similar. On the one…

Medium’s simple, elegant design is wonderful. I’ve just missed the memo on these features.

There are plenty of things I absolutely love about Medium. Enough to fill an article someday of its own. (There’s an idea!) But there are a few features where I’m either still wondering about their usefulness…

Hi Celine, thanks for reaching out! I can point you in the right direction for sure. This is a good question, because it's more complicated than it should be honestly. I'm not sure which of these ways you will prefer, so I will just list them all just in case.

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It’s easier than ever to keep your articles relevant. Here’s my simple approach.

I only recently stumbled upon an article by Paul Ryburn, M.Sc. sharing an approach to creating index pages. I really appreciated the idea and proceeded to implement something similar on my own Medium profile page. …

There is a sub-genre of slice-of-life anime known as Iyashikei. Works that fall under this label focus on providing a gentle experience. Watching shows of this nature leaves the viewer with relaxed feelings that can help heal and uplift one’s spirits.

There’s a distinctly different feeling to these kinds of…

Nowadays most title screens in video games are static or simple in nature. They are often meant to be quickly bypassed in favor of players jumping straight into the action. …