@mennonitemom
Follower of Jesus, Cranky Old Broad, Mennonite mom&wife, lover of books, world, peo, poetry & art. Disabled Spoonie🥄(MCTD, RA, Sjogrens,lupus) Fierce Mama Bear 🏳️🌈 of lesbian daughter (33) and pan & autistic son(28) 🖤🤎❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
I've had people say that a number of times and my longer pieces always did very well. Holding the reader's interest is, like, kinda the job, whether its 300 or 3,000 (or 30,000) words. Respect the reader's time by giving them your best stuff.
I always say the internet is not a medium, it's a small or an extra large
It is true that if your goal is to maximize the number of clicks on a given piece of content, you don't want to produce a 3,000-word piece. But maybe not everyone should be trying to maximize clicks! Maybe it's okay to target a smaller, more devoted audience. Indeed I've bet my entire career on it.
My entire journalistic career, editors & owners & bosses told me again & again that my stuff was too long, too in-depth, too wonky, no one would read it.
Again & again, readers flocked to the longer, wonkier pieces, passed them around, wrote me to thank me for them, cited them years later.
This just supports the thesis that Executives just dont know how to read, and they are enforcing their own stupidity on us all
Not sure what would drive someone to go on an interview publicly and say they got their partner to rehome their cats simply because they didn’t like them, but to each their own I guess?
If Christianity is to have anything to do with Christ, then it must look like Jesus.
The followers of Jesus are to be like Jesus.
Following Jesus means actually following Jesus—in how we live, in how we talk, in how we act, in how we love.
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Stone by Stone. “We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.” — Gwendolyn Brooks
Noem firing shows pressure can move power.
Businesses become lifelines for immigrant families.
Dropkick Murphys benefit turns grief into aid.
Camp East Montana 911 calls reveal misery.
Lake Street shops still closed, spending down.
Minnesota parks are full of CCC stone stairs built by hand during the Depression. Nearly a century later, they’re still standing. Firing secretaries and freezing funding won't undo what people build together, one stone at a time.
Today is March 7, 2026, here's what happened yesterday in Minnesota:
Bird with blue, black and orange feathers in flight towards bare tree branches.
In flight. Look at those colors!
#beltedkingfisher
#birds
#photography
#birdsofbluesky
Bird with bright orange feathers on its breast preening, its tail feathers spread wide as it perches on a branch.
Look at the beautiful plumage on this American robin.
#birds
#photography
#birdsofbluesky
Bird with yellow and black feathers perched on a branch.
I don't see nearly enough rusty blackbirds, but it's a very good day when I do.
#birds
#photography
#birdsofbluesky
Black woman with experience wants to elevate her position and they're all😒 White male dipshit Evangelical and it's😍
Yeah. They’ll elect a Nazi and a gop dark money white incel savior in TX who had never been to DC. They won’t elect a bad ass Rep who eats the traitors for breakfast. Who already is a congressional leader elected by her peers. A prosecutor. A true public servant. F you ppl. There’s no white savior.
Dems aren't lost - white men and my demo are, and they're pissing me off. Always looking for the next great white hope, and then do this shit.
youtu.be/i4_0YZ20pdk?...
His billionaire corporate donors love that he is giving them another reason to raise prices and gouge the American consumer more to pad their profit margins...
I love this.
And yall are still mad at her. Oh Fox News & GOP not a fucking word since you didn’t even have the decency to air the service
As opposed to you bitches going on your second decade about “beRNie wOuLdA wON iF iT waSN’t fOr tHE esTabLisHmEnt.”
Some abuse leaves no bruises, but the damage stays with you.
Just put on Rev. Jackson's funeral... "Jesus Will Work It Out" is an inheritor of our ancestors' spirituals... and before that, yes, the ring shout. Our people! Our culture! ONE LOVE!!! 🖤 www.youtube.com/watch?v=kixL...
Gas has gone up 30 cents here since the war started. One mutual says it’s gone up $1.00 in her area.
On top of food prices, not to mention health care, Americans are going to hurt.
Woo chile.. this "sanging" is 🔥🔥Black gospel choirs is the pinnacle of our survival, our joy & hope.
Thanks for posting. I'm having ch'uch up in here.