Linda Caroll

Featured in: Favicon

medium.com Favicon

substack.com Favicon

business-standard.com Favicon

newsrnd.com

Articles

People Drew Stunning Protest Posters Of The America I Know And Love

2 months ago | medium.com | Linda Caroll |Michelle Teheux

AMERICANo promotion and little planning, but thousands showed upLinda Caroll·FollowPublished inMinds Without Borders·8 min read·--Photo from Michael Moore, courtesy of YouTubeIt started so simply, but the best things often do. Opened my email, saw a photo of Union Square, NY on President’s Day. What struck me wasn’t the number of people. Thousands, a sea of people but what hit me was the work they put into the posters they were carrying. They were more than words in marker on poster board.
How I've Been Getting Ready to Work Less and Make More in 2025

Jan 12, 2025 | changetheworldwithwords.substack.com | Karen Banes |Walter Rhein |Alex Mathers |Linda Caroll

I’ll be honest. I’ve been sick this week and taking some serious downtime. Very little writing has been done, but lots of reading/listening/watching happened instead. Sometimes that’s just easier when you’re under the weather. Here’s how I’ve been getting ready to re-organise my working life in 2025. I’ve been easing back into studying (because I’m determined to be a sixty minute student in 2025) with the HERO Framework Course I started before Christmas.
Please Don’t Thank Me For Sharing

Nov 30, 2024 | medium.com | Linda Caroll

Can we talk about weird things people do on the internet? Linda Caroll·FollowPublished inThe Partnered Pen·5 min read·--Caïn by Henri Vidal, Tuileries Garden, Paris, 1896 fromthe Wikipedia page about (duh) Face PalmThis is humor, just to warn you. Because I live in Canada and it’s minus thirty three here today. If you’re American, that’s minus twenty seven and when it’s that cold, you have to find something or someone to laugh at. Tag. You’re it. I’m going to tell you a story. Don’t worry, it’s short.
A Light In The Dark

Nov 18, 2024 | medium.com | Linda Caroll

It all started with the wolf and it was dark then, too. Linda Caroll·FollowPublished inThe Interstitial·5 min read·--full moon photo by Diana on PexelsIt was the wolf I remembered when I woke. Howling off in the trees on that dark night but I can’t be like my mama, starting stories in the middle leave you to figure beginning, middle, end. Because every story has all of those.
The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe Seems A Timely Tale

Oct 29, 2024 | medium.com | Linda Caroll

Technology changes, but human nature seldom doesLinda Caroll·FollowPublished inCounter Arts·6 min read·--Edgar Allan Poe Graffiti courtesy of WikipediaIt was a dark and dreary morning when they found him. It would seem fitting, later. After the fact. After four incoherent days and a mysterious death under baffling and bizarre circumstances. How fitting, we’d say, that the man departed leaving behind one final mystery. How fitting it happened on a dreary, rainy day.
Strapped Is A Book For The American Working Class

Oct 29, 2024 | medium.com | Linda Caroll |Walter Rhein

This book isn’t for everyone, it’s for the scrappy and the struggling who didn’t get served life on a silver platterLinda Caroll·FollowPublished inWrite and Review·5 min read·--Imagine you live on a tiny island and due to some natural disaster, safe drinking water is scarce. Most people on the island are thirsty all the time. But one man has tens of thousands of cases of water stockpiled. Not bottles. Cases. More water than he can drink in a lifetime, more than his children can drink in a lifetime.
How To Protect Your Writing From ChatGPT and Other AI Bots

Oct 25, 2024 | medium.com | Linda Caroll

Here’s why you need to and I promise, it’s not hard or scaryLinda Caroll·FollowPublished inThe Generator·9 min read·--woman with digital symbols reflected on her face by cottonbro studio on pexels.comWe all know it’s not okay to take someone’s writing without permission. Like the guy who read one of my pieces, then copy and pasted it to Vocal without changing a word or even the spacing. Only thing he changed was my name. Listed himself as the author. We all know that’s not okay.
The Person I Wanted To Be

Oct 23, 2024 | medium.com | Linda Caroll

Sometimes, you are one thing, and then you are anotherLinda Caroll·FollowPublished inThe Interstitial·5 min read·--Yarrow blossom in a forest by the water by Omar Ramadan on PexelsI dreamed of marigolds. A row of them standing in barren black soil, all lush green leaves and red and gold and more alive than most people will ever be, maybe more alive than I have been and I pulled them out. One by one.
There Are Three Things We Really Need To Teach Kids About Feminism

Oct 21, 2024 | medium.com | Linda Caroll

According to a 2023 survey, most Americans don’t know what feminism is and the internet is making it worse, not better. Linda Caroll·FollowPublished inHistory of Women·6 min read·--Boy and girl walking together by Kevin Gent on UnsplashSome days my patience is lacking. Shrunken several sizes too small, like the shrunken head in Beetle Juice or the Grinch’s heart, maybe. Clicked on a story, one day, about some woman who doesn’t wear makeup. I don’t either. Mascara and lip gloss is it.
The Pretty Little Lie of the Trad-Wife and Why It’s Dangerous

Oct 4, 2024 | medium.com | Linda Caroll

First time I heard the term “Trad-wife” was a TikTok clip of a young woman, crying and saying she’s scared. Scared she’s never going to find a man, never get married, never have babies. She blamed feminism. Said she “tried” being a feminist and all it got her was being single instead of married with kids. Sniffling, she said she’s not going to be a feminist anymore. She wants to be a Trad-wife. I rolled my eyes into last week. Wanted to give her a shake.