Doreen Michele

Google needs to update its algorithm. Its current algorithm is a ridiculous and burdensome thing that is a huge headache for both freelance writers and bloggers alike. If I write a piece on a blog and also write a piece on Reddit and use substantially similar wording, Google decides the second one is plagiarism. If I get paid to write multiple pieces on the same topic using the same citation and there's nothing else out there with substantially similar research and I quote the pertinent info in more than onyce freelance piece, it gets rejected as copied content. So you have to jump through ridiculous hoops to sound like it's entirely original. You end up doing stupid stuff like reordering a list of items just to sound different and hope the filter doesn't kick it back and insist you rewrite it. I am saying this because I want to write about part-time college on a blog of mine and on Reddit I own and I don't want to link to my blog because everyone freaks out about me &q

1. Parenting and Education.  I think good parenting is teaching your kids how to live right and there is no clear bright line between raising them well and teaching them.  Raising Future Adults Adult Learners Handbook   r/MovingOnUp r/TheGraceProject 2. A new clothing paradigm as women move into the work force and stop being primarily paid for sex, sex appeal or "women's work."  Coastal Clothes   November West Wears r/FrenchWardrobe 3. Adequate nutrition via a paradigm other than "We assume you live in a household with a full-time homemaker, either your wife or mom, cooking for the entire family and memorizing all the health issues and special dietary needs of all members so you don't have to think too much about food."  Lunchbox Essentials Nutrient Dense   r/NutrientDense  4. Towns, neighborhoods, transit and other "urban planning" stuff, though I'm interested in giving pushback against the trend of big cities eating the world. My interests tr

A heteronormative view, therefore, involves alignment of biological sex, sexuality, gender identity and gender roles. Heteronormativity has been linked to heterosexism and homophobia, and the effects of societal heteronormativity on lesbian, gay and bisexual individuals have been described as heterosexual or "straight" privilege. I increasingly use the phrase heteronormative culture . So I thought I would define what I mean for future reference. I'm not talking about the view that most people are straight. I'm talking about a lot of cultural norms rooted in the implicit assumption that nearly everyone is straight, thus being something other than a cis het person is some extremely tiny minority, so small as to be an aberration and therefore nothing society needs to incorporate any kind of cultural accommodation for. This is not and has never been true. The lack of healthy societal norms for anything other than "You must fall in love with a member of the opposite

I like living well and enjoying life. I think of myself as a hedonist but I rarely call myself that because to other people that seems to mean "shortsighted idiot who has zero concept of consequences and is incapable of learning from their mistakes." Because most people seem to think "hedonist" means "drunkard and drug addict who sleeps around casually and has zero sexual ethics " Excuse me? I like my fun without regrets. Hangovers, STDs, jail time and other ruinous consequences for shortsighted behavior are absolutely not my idea of "fun," thanks. The expression bon vivant  seems to do a better job of conveying what I mean which is that I like eating well, good conversation, nice clothes and similar pleasantries.  I like living well and bon vivant is French for "person who lives well." (Literally "good liver.") If you want to communicate effectively, it's pointless to try insist your audience is wrong about what a word

I have been going through my sites and updating labels. The reason: Multiple word labels with spaces create broken links, so you can't effectively share the list of posts under that label. I have been reducing labels to one word or running multiple words together. In one case, I simply deleted all labels from the site. A word to the wise: If at all possible, plan on one word labels for your site (as I wisely mostly did on  Street Life Solutions ).

At one time, this blog was intended to be a business card of sorts, a space to talk about writing and website admin and sell freelance work to people. It didn't really fly and it's sort of reverted to being a personal blog of sorts again, but more work related than my personal blogs used to be. As noted in my  last post  on this site, odds are good Celine Dion has heard of me and dismissed me and my  health writing  out of hand.  From Medical Internet Literacy : One of the criticisms I got today about internet literacy was someone saying that big name famous people were promoting a lot of nonsense: Just a sampling of educated people who were pushing this bullshit: Elon Musk (Stanford grad school dropout), Dr Drew (USC MD), Bret Weinstein (UMich PhD), Harvey Risch (Yale). It's been more than a month since my last post to that site. I don't know if it's worth developing further AT ALL. I am not aware of any evidence that it's doing any real good for other p