Steve Russell
1 min readApr 9, 2019

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Thanks for helping me with traffic. I set out to write 30 articles in 30 days to investigate whether I could earn some walking around money. My last two writing gigs, Indian Country Media Network and Newsweek, left me unemployed and this coincided with a cancer diagnosis so I had to write my memoirs if I ever intended to attempt inspiration of my fellow dropouts.

Now the memoir is done and shopping it around does not take as long as writing it. I really miss writing regularly. However, Medium does not appear to be paying off, so I’m probably about done.

Getting back to the election, if I had to pick right now I’m leaning toward Mayor Pete. One of the candidates I have supported in the past was Beto, and Mayor Pete is like Beto with position papers.

I would be for Elizabeth Warren if she were not a relic of my generation. I could vote for her with some enthusiasm, especially if she had one of the younger candidates running with her.

Who am I kidding? I could vote for ANY OF THE ANNOUNCED DEMOCRATS with some enthusiasm. I am not comfortable with discourse in which facts don’t matter. It’s nice to never get caught in an error, but I would rather the reason I don’t get caught be because I was careful.

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Steve Russell
Steve Russell

Written by Steve Russell

Enrolled Cherokee, 9th grade dropout, retired judge, associate professor emeritus, and (so far) cancer survivor. Memoir: Lighting the Fire (Miniver Press 2020)

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