Master Index of Articles by Sharon Woodhouse
This index links to the various categories I write about…
Area of General Expertise and Experience (35+ years)
Area of Specialized Expertise and Experience (25+ years)
Areas of Newer Expertise and Experience (10–20 years)
Areas of Lifelong Interest
Areas of Newer Interest
Creative Nonfiction
21 reasons that consider you, your readers, your content, language itself, and how they all relate
According to the Literacy Project, something like 17% of American adults are functionally illiterate and half can’t read a book written at an 8th-grade level. …
On the most wonderful time of the year for starting a cushion
If your radio station has yet to unleash the holiday tunes, let me be the one to remind you that it’s that time again. The most wonderful time of the year for banking easy extra cash.
If you have a particular set of skills and a particular need and motivation…
Old school and ahead of its time advice on how to get what you really want
Before there were Instagram influencers, dime-a-dozen life coaches, and slick packaged live-my-amazing-six-figure-life gurus, there was Barbara Sher. And she was amazing. …
Writing for Medium is a bargain compared to grad school.
I’m paying for grad school out of pocket. One class at a time. For me, it’s a…
trial balloon — academia for me is the road not taken; should I reverse course and hop back on?;
bucket list item — when I didn’t know if I’d ever recover from the blank mind I experienced while recovering from a concussion (aphantasia), I regretted not having finished grad school;
career hedge — a credential under the belt as I transition from book publishing and entrepreneurship to…something else —
all rolled into one time-consuming (5 years) and expensive ($26,000) ball of wax.
By contrast, I learn through everything I write on Medium. Learn and explore my thoughts and craft. Get immediate exposure and feedback. Dollars added, not subtracted, from the bank each month.
It’s time well spent. Tuition in the school of life.
Is navel gazing communing with one’s biome, sending lovingkindness to another, becoming one with the universe — or all of the above?
Is meditation getting quiet enough to cross a level of organization and communicate with what’s there? Is it getting beyond the clutter and distractions of the human level of understanding to allow for communication routes to these different levels, a sensitized ability to tune in to alternate organizations?
Or, “Go for the apple and let it burn…”
As Eve said, “Go for the apple and let it burn…”
Actually, that was Glennon Doyle in the July 22, 2021, On Being podcast interview she and her wife, soccer star Abby Wambach, had with host Krista Tippett:
“Destruction, we’re too scared of it. We’re too scared of apocalypse. Who…
Your understanding of the economy, relating, brains, biology, and getting things done will never be the same
1. Common Inheritance
From Unjust Deserts: How the Rich Are Taking Our Common Inheritance* (Gar Alperovitz and Lew Daly, 2008)
Common inheritance is the idea that as humans we collectively inherit more from our ancestors, all those who went before us, than we currently recognize. That’s because it’s in someone else’s hands. Namely…
UBI, universal basic income, instead of cradle-to-grave social welfare programs
When I saw the September 7, 2021, New York Times headline: “From Cradle to Grave, Democrats Move to Expand Social Safety Net,” my heart sank. I am some sort of libertarian-liberal, pragmatic-progressive Democrat and I do think we owe each other as fellow citizens and human beings a much better…
