Mark Hodgetts

It seems to me that the pursuit of happiness is a classic three-card trick. We are consistently encouraged to seek happiness through a variety of channels. We are told that…

Accountants perform valuable functions. They can count, apply ratios, prepare reports and highlight areas of concern. Their profession is conservative and rightly so. Numbers are their domain. They’re very good…

For those that don’t know Medium is an online platform that published articles by independent authors. It is a highly successful platform. I recall seeing statistics somewhere that stated that…

A couple of weeks ago I was commissioned to write a piece on banks and cryptocurrency. I intentionally kept it relatively light and didn’t dig too deep. The subject is…

Let’s talk about fear. The gut churning, sleep depriving, mind numbing demon that we all pretend not to know. It lurks inside our minds waiting to challenge us at our…

I was once an avid reader. A good book would have me immersed in a whole new world that allowed me to escape from whatever I was running from. I’d…

This morning, I was up early. The sun hadn’t quite risen when I embarked on my morning walk. It was cool and I appreciated the welcome breeze that I’d been…

Airtasker and Upwork are two platforms that have become key components of the gig economy. Upwork is by far the better platform from a writing perspective, whereas Airtasker tends to…

Last evening, I had a visit from a friend that I used to work with 35 years ago. Although he is five or so years younger than me, we were…

One of the great things about being an underground writer (So far underground that you’d need a mining permit to find me), is that you meet some really interesting creative…