Did the last week or so of coverage of the U.S. presidential election trigger you? Welcome to the fast-growing community of sexual assault victims who are reliving their past traumas thanks to The Donald.

When I moved to Ecuador in mid-November almost six years ago, I was astonished to find higher-than-our-head poinsettias with bright red leaves on top. I thought of poinsettia as the potted plant sold in

Since I joined Steemit, I've noticed a tendency to stay up too late and neglect everything else for steeming. Oddly enough, I've started speaking a foreign language almost overnight--blockchain, crytocurrency,

Thank you, @stellabelle! I seem able to make memes only for an internal audience. One of these days I'll do a marketing one. If you missed my prior memes, here they are: Wanna see and Honey. Photo source:

If this is a community, then this metric matters. Yesterday I passed one hundred followers, and my reputation is up to 45.5. My numbers had stalled for a bit because nobody knew me (I wasn’t doing promotion

This is not a marketing meme, but rather a way to empathize with brand-new minnows, which was my status not very long ago. This represents how I felt.

Wanna see ... Steem-Meme #1

Can you drink the tap water? The answer in many parts of Latin America is No, not unless you want a nasty intestinal bug. In Ecuador, Nicaragua, Mexico, and during our first two months in Guatemala, we

Would you be embarrassed—or sued—if the world found out you were a plagiarist? We talk a lot about plagiarism and copyright infringement on Steemit because quite a few bloggers have been caught presenting

What can go wrong when you forget to HALT while HUNGRY, ANGRY, LONELY, or TIRED? … or when you’re Hot, Altered, Accustomed, Absorbed, Assuming, Lost, or Thirsty? See also Part 1 and Part 2. ‘But, Mom,

Failure to HALT can get you in trouble abroad. @Steemerpat says: Limit travel mistakes by using the HALT tool. I learned the HALT acronym from a friend in Alcoholics Anonymous. Since I became an expat

Becoming aware of the conditions that make you most vulnerable can limit bad experiences while you travel and live abroad. Author expands on HALT self-care tool of AA. Don’t let failure to HALT mess up

“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” – Unknown Hi, fellow Steemers. I’m steemerpat, aka Pat or Patricia Bray. Since 2010, I have: • Lived