“I Have Some Really Fucking Awful News” published in Season of the Witch by Ted Rheingold

Medium Daily Digest Most recommended by People you follow Hunter Walk I Have Some Really Fucking Awful News A couple weeks ago, my and my family's life was served a giant heaping shit sandwich when a number of sizable cancerous lumps were found in… my abdomen. They're carcinomas of a yet-to-be identified source that has already spread to my kidneys, adrenal gland, omentum and lower lungs. If you know cancer, then you already know I'm in a… in Season of the Witch, by Ted Rheingold 5 min read Paul Cantor Things I learned working on Serial N.B.: The last day of my seasonal contract with Serial was Friday, April 15, 2016, and I'm posting on my personal account, so this is from… Kristen Taylor 7 min read Buffer How to Get the Content Marketing Job You've Always Wanted by Kevan Lee, marketing @ Buffer in Content Wins, by Kevan Lee 11 min read Paul Cantor Eleven layers, seven pounds Or, why you might make your friends a wedding cake Kristen Taylor 11 min read Paul Cantor Our Rituals Are Gone Friday night, I went to a Passover dinner at a Jewish friends house, and it was as I felt last year when I went. It is truly remarkable… Glenn Beck 10 min read Published by Authors and publications you follow Purple Storm It's everywhere. From celebrity tributes to social media discussions, the death of Prince has resulted in epic, cross-cultural mourning… . There are several reasons to explain this extended period of overflowing public grief; some obvious, some less so. ¶ Let's start with the most obvious. He was a hit machine through which music… Dave Pell 4 min read How to Start Amazing Things One Simple Rule for Beginning Things That Matter in On Eudaimonia, by umair haque 5 min read The 5 Key Pillars You Need for Epic Content Marketing Success Content and knowledge in the past was trapped on film reels, photo albums, printed books and filing cabinets. Jeff Bullas 10 min read Don't Get Seduced By Numbers There is a thinking on the web and it goes something like this: x piece got x amount of traffic so that must mean x piece is good. Paul Cantor 1 min read Vevo Has 17 Billion Video Playbacks Monthly, 5% of Which Is Me Watching Taylor Swift I grew up in the age of MTV, so it's no surprise that I often fall down the music videos rabbit hole on YouTube. Many of those videos are… in Five Questions, by Hunter Walk 4 min read Recommended by Medium Staff I Tried to Green My Apartment by Learning From the Weed-Growing Community Doesn't every city dweller deserve somewhere to grow their own food, even if it's just a bucket? There are two things I don't know if I'll ever have: a kid and a garden. My parents had both. My childhood was green and quiet, leafy and loamy, and we grew things in the yard sometimes — squash… in How We Get To Next, by Leigh Alexander 14 min read Top stories in parenting Having It All Kinda Sucks Only women would sign up for this much crap. Okay first, allow me to check my privilege so you don't have to: I am a white woman with a college education. I am married. I live in a beautiful little town in the mountains. I have a career I… in Life Tips, by amywestervelt 9 min read Hospital Nightmares I spent almost four months in the hospital in 1983 prior to the day my baby was born. Before this, I trusted doctors and nurses as any… in Life Tips, by Danna Colman 9 min read Top stories in politics On Becoming Anti-Bernie I started out liking Bernie Sanders, though I leaned slightly toward Hillary Clinton. Yet I've come to the point where I can barely stand… his face, and I just want him to stop jabbing his finger as he brays the same slogans in every single venue, over and over. How did I get to this point, especially as someone who had reservations… Robin Alperstein 42 min read What the media will never understand about Trump supporters In today's Washington Post, Callum Borchers tries to argue that the "nasty effect" is responsible for what he claims to be the unexpected… Michael Lissack 4 min read Top stories in artificial-intelligence Deep Learning Is Going to Teach Us All the Lesson of Our Lives: Jobs Are for Machines (An alternate version of this article was originally published in the Boston Globe) On December 2nd, 1942, a team of scientists led by Enrico Fermi came back from lunch and watched as humanity created the first self-sustaining nuclear reaction inside a pile of bricks and wood… in Basic income, by Scott Santens 14 min read What Happens When Bots Learn to Lie? Most humans are conditioned to trust authority but what causes people to decide whether a computer is authoritative or not? That is, are we… Hunter Walk 2 min read Top stories in travel Instagram Is Ruining Vacation Eating, praying and loving may be a stated goal of travel. In reality, we seem more obsessed with nabbing the perfect photo. The scalloped outline of Angkor Wat had a way of making itself known in the darkness, and only sharpened as the sun peeked over the horizon. It was January, and I stood at the edge of a lake north of… in Backchannel, by Mary Pilon 9 min read I'm a Traveler on a Budget — Not a Budget Traveler Here's a list of things I'm not willing to do to save money when I travel: carry my own bedding, eat out of a can, share a room with… in The Billfold, by Rosie Spinks 7 min read Read more on Medium Connect with us on:

Get the Medium app: Sent by Medium · 760 Market Street, 9th floor, San Francisco, CA 94102 Switch to the weekly digest or unsubscribe · Help center · Privacy policy