This post contains affiliate links I woke up to a nasty surprise this month. Back in October 2020, I did my Last Minute Halloween Costume Ideas post. In my haste to find images, I included an image of Mike Pence with a fly on his head from the Vice Presidential debate. Fast forward to September 2021, and […]
Month: September 2021

How to Write a Top Story on Vocal Media
I’ve written a lot about Vocal Media. While I prefer Medium and my own site for writing, I still find value in cross-posting my site onto Vocal Media as well. Occasionally, I will achieve the coveted goal of creating a “Top Story” — a post that the editorial team at Vocal Media deem good enough […]

Walking by Your Ghosts
I was meeting family for dinner in downtown Toronto, and I found myself retreading familiar ground. It was the same path I traveled to go to class just 2 years prior, when I was taking a course on Professional Communication at George Brown. It was the same path I took to go to my part-time […]

3 Ways Vocal Media Can Improve to be Better than Medium
Recently, I was asked to participate in a research interview for Vocal Media. (Full disclosure: I was offered $100 for my time, as well as an annual membership to their Vocal+ program.) I was designated their “standby participant”, and would only be asked to participate if their initial candidate dropped out. As luck would have […]