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My Work on Medium, Organized by Subject — Part 2

Here’s where you’ll find more of the stuff you like — About Me Ilana Lydia — About Me 2.0 The story behind the storyilanalydia11.medium.com Books and Reading What if You Read Your Mom’s Autobiography and Found a New Level of Her Suffering? I’m grateful we didn’t find it any earliermedium.com What Are Words Exactly, and How Do They Operate? Why Does Reading Work? ‘It shouldn’t woik, I tells ya!’medium.com

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My Work on Medium, Organized by Subject — Part 2
My Work on Medium, Organized by Subject — Part 2
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My Work on Medium, Organized by Subject Matter

Here’s where to find more of the stuff you like — About Me About Me — Ilana Lydia What are some curious facts about Ilana Lydia?medium.com Books and Reading Romance: The Bleeped Upon Genre No One Respects Or, in defence of Twilightmedium.com What Brave and Defiant Character Defines Your Story? From Valentine Michael Smith to River Song, your choices are manymedium.com Why Being Called Human Is a Compliment, Against All Odds Why some sci-fi got it wrong.medium.com

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My Work on Medium, Organized by Subject Matter
My Work on Medium, Organized by Subject Matter
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Feb 22

A Few Faltering Steps into the Real World

What my time away from Medium has shown me — When I came on Medium about a year and a half ago, I was looking for three things: To express my thoughts coherently in a public forum. To make friends with like-minded individuals, as well as people different from me. A little cash wouldn’t hurt. I can say I have…

Life

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A Few Faltering Steps into the Real World
A Few Faltering Steps into the Real World
Life

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Published in Youness-ness

·Sep 18, 2022

Having a Major Surgery? Follow These Five Guidelines to Come Out Healthy on the Other Side

It’s all fun and games until the lights go out — I’d change a lot of things, if I had to do it over. But you can learn from my mistakes. I just got a double mastectomy, and am recovering as we speak. I did a lot of stuff wrong. Not just ineptly, but like a bumbling, mumbling fool. “Don’t Do…

Recovery

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Having a Major Surgery? Follow These Five Guidelines to Come Out Healthy on the Other Side
Having a Major Surgery? Follow These Five Guidelines to Come Out Healthy on the Other Side
Recovery

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Published in Creative Passions 💖

·Sep 6, 2022

Why Are Serial Killers Such a Sensation? What Makes Them Popular?

Are we all just killers-in-waiting? — If you’re like the majority of Americans, you find serial killers fascinating rather than deplorable. Once just the domain of True Crime, the absolute take over of serial killers in our entertainment, fiction and non-fiction, can’t be denied. Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal ran an article by Kevin D…

Serial Killers

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Why Are Serial Killers Such a Sensation? What Makes Them Popular?
Why Are Serial Killers Such a Sensation? What Makes Them Popular?
Serial Killers

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Published in Creative Passions 💖

·Aug 27, 2022

What Qualities Should We Seek in an Excellent Mentor?

How to tell if you have a lot to gain from the mentor/mentee relationship. — Not all of us have gone for Jedi training on Dagoba, but most of us have been lucky enough to work with someone more experienced in our field who could help us traverse the challenges of the job. Blind to the mentors around me For a long time, I never realized I had had mentors. I…

Mentorship

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What Qualities Should We Seek in an Excellent Mentor?
What Qualities Should We Seek in an Excellent Mentor?
Mentorship

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Published in Youness-ness

·Aug 21, 2022

How Do You Come Up with New Ideas Each Time You Start Thinking?

And what of people who don’t? — If you do the same action again and again with no results, this is both useless and insane. Your assessment of the facts isn’t lining up with reality. And yet, all of us do it. Consider self-judgments “I’m so stupid.” “I can’t do anything right.” “I’ll never get this done on time.” …

Idea Generation

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How Do You Come Up with New Ideas Each Time You Start Thinking?
How Do You Come Up with New Ideas Each Time You Start Thinking?
Idea Generation

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Published in Youness-ness

·Aug 15, 2022

My Desert Island Ten Books

Because you shouldn’t be idle when you’re marooned on a desert island — For a no-nonsense list of seven books that your teachers would be proud of, you might try this article by Simon Dillon: Seven Books I’d Take to a Desert Island: The Dillon Empire Edition After a truly excruciating selection process, here are my literary essentials.medium.com For a list that’s much too silly, read on. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy “trilogy” by Douglas Adams (I’d take all five books and the short, since…

Books

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My Desert Island Ten Books
My Desert Island Ten Books
Books

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Published in Clear Yo Mind

·Aug 13, 2022

Ding! Ding! Ding! Time to Check on Your Well Being

Quit hitting the snooze button and pull up a chair — . . . or a mat, or a standing desk . . . Hello, and welcome to the reminder that you keep putting off. Check-in time! How are you doing? Really? It’s not that I don’t believe you, but I think most of us say, “fine” or “okay” out of…

Wellbeing

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Ding! Ding! Ding! Time to Check on Your Well Being
Ding! Ding! Ding! Time to Check on Your Well Being
Wellbeing

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Published in Clear Yo Mind

·Aug 13, 2022

Does Your Mind Flip Through Channels Too Quickly? How Do You Concentrate Better?

A vexing problem in today’s day and age — Except for, perhaps, very slow, methodical, and diligent thinkers, most people have problems with concentration now and then. Our culture encourages it. In the digital age, information comes at us from all directions and nearly at the speed of light. I remember hearing one student describe this experience as “flipping…

Concentration

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Does Your Mind Flip Through Channels Too Quickly? How Do You Concentrate Better?
Does Your Mind Flip Through Channels Too Quickly? How Do You Concentrate Better?
Concentration

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Ilana Lydia

Ilana Lydia

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A theater person/writer/reader of curiosities. A believer in wonder.

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