Smaller: A fictional short-short story

Vacant: A fictional short-short story

If You Worry That You're Dull

"You Always Look Sad:" A fictional short-short story

Snippets: a short-short story

Succeeding Solo: A short guide for people who do better on their own.

Much self-help advice assumes that homo sapiens is a social animal. Under-considered are people who prefer to go largely solo. My Psychology Today article today attempts a bit of remedy.

For Gentle Souls An homage and suggestions

Today, we seem to venerate the loud-and-proud, big-and-bad, badass. Amid the din, the gentle soul can be underappreciated.

After all, disproportionately, gentle souls are listeners, reflective, patient, and considerate. My Psychology Today article today offers  some ideas that the gentle soul might find helpful.

Partygoing for Introverts

With COVID subsiding at least for now, people are more comfortable throwing parties. So the introvert has less excuse for begging off. If you'd like to feel better about going, I offer tactics in my Psychology Today article today.

Succeeding While Shy: Nuggets for the introvert or socially anxious

The just-published new edition of the classic career guide, What Color is Your Parachute, updated by Katharine Brooks, includes a fine section on succeeding while shy. And she speaks from personal experience: “I myself have been painfully shy for much of my life, but no one ever guesses.”

My PsychologyToday.com article today offers nuggets from that section plus my additions.

“I Thought Being an Introvert was Abnormal”

My PsychologyToday.com article today offers a distillation of my interview of Darren Love, 21 of  Bellwood Illinois.

A Piano Tuner's Tempo: Romancing an Introvert

As regular readers of my work know, in my PsychologyToday blog, I've been experimenting with trying to embed psychological profiles into very short stories. Today's is about romancing an introvert.

Stories of Seclusion: Freddie the Falafel Fella

Today's installment in my PsychologyToday.com series, Stories of Seclusion, tells of Freddie the Falafel Fella. His story presents one of the myriad ways people can find contentment with a minimal social life.

Should Introverts Try to Be More Social?

We're encouraged to be social animals, even if we're introverts. But should we succumb to the pressure? 

My PsychologyToday.com article today, offers an internal debate on the subject. 

Note: I'm considering writing a book on people who choose to spend most of their time alone.  They're often called reclusive, a hermit, introverted, etc. But those have pejorative connotations. I plan to write an homage to those who generally prefer to work, play, and live solo.

If you might like to be profiled in the book, would you email me at mnemko@comcast.net? Thanks.