Betty White, Truth Social, NewsBreak, and Twitter came in on top. — I must admit, I didn’t spend much time writing on Medium this year. And though I wish I could honestly say I will publish here more often in 2023, I know the truth. Life gets in the way, and there is only so much time each day to get things…

All you need is melted chocolate, peppermint extract, and candy canes to make this delicious and easy holiday bark recipe — I seem to always overbuy boxes of candy canes. They’re inexpensive, festive, and often on sale before the holidays. But when Christmas is over, I still have candy canes in abundance. However, I’ve discovered plenty of ways to use them. Like using crushed candy canes to rim a holiday cocktail…

Will this change affect writers promoting Medium articles on Twitter? — (December 18, 2022) This Sunday afternoon Twitter dropped its latest bombshell piece of news and announced a ban on users linking to other social networks, including popular sites like Facebook and Instagram. Promotion of Alternative Social Platforms Policy | Twitter Help Twitter is where the public conversation is happening, and where people from all over the globe come to promote their…help.twitter.com

Nobody will ever guess this foolproof peanut brittle recipe was made in the microwave, and it takes mere minutes — The holidays are busy enough without having to deal with fussy, complicated, overinvolved recipes. So when I discover something that is both tasty, and easy to make, I like to stick with it. There are many iterations of this recipe online, like this one from Allrecipes, but I got my…

If Oscar Wilde was right, I should be highly flattered — It’s unsettling to see an article you wrote copied word for word, including the links and images. But it’s absolutely mindblowing to see every single article you have published on Medium showing up on a different platform under someone else’s name.

It may be because your stats show views and reads from your comments as well as the stories you write — Have you ever noticed a spike in your daily views and reads but can’t pinpoint the article it’s coming from? This recently happened to me, and as it turns out, the increase in views came from a comment I had left on someone else’s story that had gone viral. …

You can win up to $200 — NewsBreak runs many campaigns throughout the year where they offer contributors cash awards for following certain themes. I am a fan of these competitions, and I know they are winnable because I have won quite a few. In fact, I won so many in 2021 I was awarded the Campaign…

I just got my first tip! — This story contains affiliate links. Over the summer I received an email from NewsBreak asking if I wanted to opt-in to test a new feature they were rolling out to a limited number of their contributors. According to the email, NewsBreak wanted to know if I would like to try…

I received payment for a story on a day it had zero views — I noticed a story show up in my Medium earnings recently that hadn’t made any money this month. Since the views have been mainly external for this one, it hasn’t generated much income. (As you know, Medium only pays for internal reads of paying members.) Curious, I clicked on “View…