Outstanding Narratives — Volume 5: A Curated Collection
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Rachel Lynn
- Chronic Fatigue is Hard to Explain
- Living a misunderstood life can be lonely.
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Tree Langdon, CPA, CGA
- A Cry For Help
- We Reach A New Level of Crisis.
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Floyd Mori
- Changing Native American Names As Mascots
- Racist Names and Actions Should End.
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Tom Handy
- For the first time, America failed its virtual learning test
- A rant as a concerned parent with three recommendations.
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Britni Pepper
- End of a Curvy Girl
- A sex story to curl your mind.
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Paul Myers MBA
- Porter’s Strategy Is Still Relevant for Competitive Advantage
- A discussion about business model strategies for leaders, founders, entrepreneurs, and startups.
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Ryan Frawley
- William Blake and the Life-Renewing Power of Imagination
- Where’s the fun in seeing things the way they really are?
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Dr Mehmet Yildiz
- Ethical Hacking
- Critical Role & Responsibilities of Ethical Hackers in Digital Transformation Initiatives.
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Whitney Rose
- I Broke Up With Sex Three Years Ago
- What I Learned About Myself and How My Life Changed For The Better (a perfect practice during a global pandemic?).
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Terry Mansfield
- A Third-Grade Education Didn’t Stop My Father
- My father only made it through the third grade. But he still accomplished important things and took good care of his…
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Jasmine Poulton
- Baby Went Away
- A poem about losing a pet.
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Øivind H. Solheim
- My Secret Industrial Photo Safari
- I Enter the Decommissioned Smelter One Sunday Morning in March 2004.
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The Maverick Files
- Movies, TV and The Incidental Social Responsibility
- How movies and TV shape our perceptions of society and often breed discrimination.
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Deborah Levine
- The Powerful Connection of Entrepreneurship and Spirituality
- When we think of entrepreneurs, let us remember that there are two basic motivations within the entrepreneurial spirit…
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Melissa Bee
- Dark Aura
- A poem.
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Britni Pepper
- Meditation: it’s not what you think
- Can you meditate and chew gum at the same time?
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Mukundarajan V N
- Three Reality Filters To Detect Lies, Misinformation, and Deception
- A book published thirty-five years ago reveals the tools.
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Geetika Sethi
- Existence
- My state of being alive each moment with my love in the realm of reality — in the present, the bygone past as well as…
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Dr Michael Heng
- The Incomplete Art of Growing Talent
- High Performance Culture is More Important.
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J.D. Harms
- The Suspension Collection
- A Poem.
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Jason Ward
- To Live in Villas Las Estrellas You Need to Have Your Appendix Removed
- When you hear about Leonid Rogozov, you’ll see why.
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Toni Tails
- My Autistic Son Wore The Same Clothes For Two Years
- When we moved across the country, my kid decided one outfit was all he needed.
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Jaysankar D Talukdar
- Top Seven Shlokas from Bhagvad Gita for Children
- Nurture your child’s mind and give them a meaningful life.
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Paul Fairbairn
- Editing 101: Should You Murder Your Darlings?
- Ruthless editing is crucial . . . but not at the cost of your individuality.
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Ryan Porter
- You’re Killing Yourself With Cold Calls
- Don’t tell potential clients what you can do. Show them.
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Anshuman Gupta
- CONQUERING THE DAILY CHALLENGES IN LIFE.
- The Daily Life Problems and Some Ways to Tackle Them.
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Martine Weber
- Dream Of Love
- What If It Could Become Reality? — A Poem.
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Aurora Eliam, CMP
- Stepping Back to Move Forward
- Taking Time Off, Stoic Style.
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Mythili Iyer
- What Can We Learn from a Mathematician Who Never Existed?
- The interesting history and contributions of Nicolas Bourbaki.
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Aru Dinelka
- You Need to Stop Binge-Watching Right Away
- What happens to you when you binge-watch.
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Bernard E. Robert
- Why I’d build my startup outside the Valley
- America may be losing its precious tech monopoly.
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Sarene B. Arias
- RBG Leaving the World On Rosh HaShanah is Perfectly Tragic
- The liberal feminist icon left the world just as Jews were gathering to welcome the New Year.
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Elizabeth Lou
- Using Your Scarf During Crisis
- And no, not the article of clothing.
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Ankit Das
- How I Tricked My Brain To Start Doing Hard Work
- Three steps that I used to detoxify my brain.
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Jake Mura
- 3 Exercises to Reverse Bad Posture Which You Probably Have as a Writer
- Three exercises to correct bad posture caused by sedentary work.
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Katrina Paulson
- Why Are We Attracted to the Darkness?
- Turns out, there might be a good reason for it.
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Claire Splan
- No, the Redesigned White House Garden Doesn’t Spell Out KKK
- Get a grip, folks. It’s a classic (albeit boring) garden design.
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Enzo M. Battista-Dowds PhD. RD.
- 3 Ways to Better Understand Nutrition Articles: Critical Thinking for Foodies (Part 2)
- We can learn from the mistakes of others. Here are three mistakes nutrition quacks online make.
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Jordan Mendiola
- My Seasonal Depression is Coming and I’m Not Afraid, Here’s Why
- This yearly battle doesn’t control my life because I don’t allow it to anymore.
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SHAIK SAMEERUDDIN
- Four fundamental lessons in data science demonstrated by COVID-19
- Machine learning and tools for data science are more available than ever. But it’s just as important to learn how to…
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CJ Gotcher
- A Card Game Master Class on Strategic Decision-making
- What deck-builders teach us about choosing effectively in a flood of options.
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Janice Arenofsky
- Do You Have a Collector in the Family?
- The addiction that keeps giving.
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Vanessa Robinson
- Every Violent Protest had a Spark
- Somebody usually died first.
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Kate Lynch
- 6 Soothing Yoga Strategies Helping Me Through the Pandemic
- Taking care of myself can’t to be a long, indulgent process right now. COVID-19 has changed my practice, and that’s…
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Drama Llama
- Shakespeare’s Globe, a site of national heritage or a laboratory?
- Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre.
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Robin G Murphy
- Taking the Fear Out of Presentations
- The Power of Loving-Kindness to Transform Public Speaking.
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Pene Hodge
- Rites of Passage — The Menopause Chronicles (1)
- Today I decided to branch off on a more delicate topic. Currently or maybe since the dawn of time, aging, especially…
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Godofredo Rojas
- Who Is Your Superhero? He Must Be You in 3 Years
- And start to shape your superpowers.
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Rosa Walker
- Women Everywhere are Drowning in Sand
- Women’s mental load & emotional labor are not female issues, but symptoms of deeper social inequities.
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Kylie Fuller
- What You Must Study to Become Your Highest Self
- Studying human behavior empowers us to shed cognitive biases and engage in more meaningful interactions.
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Doody Richards
- The Hardest Part Of Veganism Might Actually Be The Judgement From Other Vegans
- What I Learned From My Three-Month Journey So Far.
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Tim Maudlin
- Writing Itself Makes More Sense Than Dollars
- The CAPITAL of consistent content creation.
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Suntonu Bhadra
- Just Some Words In The Night
- left alone.
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Roger A. Reid, Ph.D.
- 10 Effective Ways to be Recognized as a Leader When You’re Not the Boss
- Adopting a professional attitude and mindset is part of being successful.
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Amy Skeel
- Why Americans Drop the British “U”
- Noah Webster’s first American dictionary and the revolution it brought to language in a new nation.
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Stuart Englander
- Up, Up and…
- Is ‘Away’ ready to deliver the message to the universe?
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Debbie Walker
- My name Is Debbie and I Am a Queen
- In my Kingdom, we encourage, engage with, and empower each other to lead fulfilled lives.
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Caspar
- If You Have Writer’s Block, Change Your Tool
- The tools you use affect your thought process.
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Tom Handy
- 3 Things I Stopped Doing in Order to Write Every Day
- It’s a tough decision but well worth it.
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Zul Bal
- Exercise Happier, Not Harder
- How out of desperation came a solution.
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Robin G Murphy
- Use a Blood Glucose Monitor to Lose Weight
- Improve eating habits and health, plus reduce weight with hunger training.
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Florian Hoffmann
- The 7 Most Important Rules For A Strong Self-Confidence
- These Rules are Essential for an Indestructible Self-Confidence.
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Erin M. Singh
- This Is How You Can Get Lost In Translation
- Even if we all speak English.
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Tonte Bo Douglas
- 8 Important Life Lessons Learnt In Manhood
- A must read post for those aiming to be the best version of themselves.
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Valentina Colapicchioni, PhD
- The Line-Dried Laundry Smell: Origin and Ingredients
- Researchers at the University of Copenhagen have studied the phenomena that take place on a wet fabric and they…
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Salman Ali
- These 5 Ted Talks Will Inspire You Towards Financial Freedom
- Learning The Art of Improving Your Finances.
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Emily Kingsley
- This Is The Book You Need To Read Right Now
- It will make 2020 feel better and worse all at the same time.
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Mia Miller
- Australian Government Asks Aussie Women to Have More Babies
- But Forgets to Say Please.
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CR Mandler MAT
- Writer’s Nirvana
- Illumination and Illumination-Curated.
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René Junge
- Sensitive Reading — what it is and what it is not
- In the public debate, there are many misunderstandings about what sensitive reading is and what sensitive readers do…
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Dr. Dion
- No Video; No Justice
- The ominous message that the Daniel Prude murder sends to Black Americans.
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Maria Marmo
- The Days of the Hermit Writer Are Long Gone
- Is writing still the perfect endeavor for introverts?
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Ugur Akinci, Ph.D.
- Alev Lytle Croutier: “HAREM: The World Behind the Veil” (1989) Abbeville Press
- All you want to know about an enigmatic institution and then some.
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Julius Reizen
- How to Ace Your Next Test by Doing Less
- Olympic-tested techniques for performing under pressure.
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Halimah K.
- 5 Eccentric Habits of Emotionally Intelligent People
- A short guide to long-lasting emotional growth.
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Geetika Sethi
- ILLUMINATE
- Doubly from within at my favourite publication.
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Ardsheer Ali
- Why You Should Watch Ricky Gervais’ After Life
- It’s a terrible time to be alive.
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Phil Truman
- When Do We Want It? Now!
- What, exactly, do we want? Uh…
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Feather?tales
- My Home is Burning
- Wake up, little girl, your home is on fire.
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Blaine Coleman
- He Who Would Be Tyrant First Presents Himself as a Protector
- Does Trump have to shoot someone on Fifth Ave. before he loses his following?
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Nusrat Nisa
- BTS: Making ‘Humanity’ a Trend in Every Culture
- Why fans would raise $100K for charity.
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Pene Hodge
- Hand Sanitizer — How Safe Are They?
- A look at hand sanitizers and what it could mean for your health.
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The Luna
- How To Stop Getting Your Pitches Rejected
- And how to stop losing clients.
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Fatim Hemraj
- ‘The Babysitter: Killer Queen’ Uses Kanye West To Take a Cold-Blooded Bite Out of Humanity
- I had to turn it off.
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Cullen Dano
- How Acceptance Can Save Your Sanity
- Learning to let go will release you from the madhouse.
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Stuart Englander
- Requiem For A Mythology
- The final showdown at the saloon of the Western genre.
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Dean Middleburgh
- The Forgotten Fruit
- A story of pain, loss, and love.
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Henner Townlove
- The Curious Case of Fe del Mundo — The First Woman to Get into Harvard University Medical School
- But she wasn’t supposed to be there, or so the legend goes.
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Haucem Sadki
- 10 Tips To Regain Self-Confidence
- It’s always possible.
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Kyle Chastain
- If You Feel Stressed You Need More Agency
- How to thrive in the age of anxiety.
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John Teehan
- 5 Simple Ways To Improve Your Website Sales
- Up your conversion rates and grow your sales.
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Isaiah McCall
- How Performing Magic For 6-Years Skyrocketed My Confidence
- And how to apply these lessons in every aspect of life.
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