Why I Write On Medium

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Several years years ago, when I had a full time job at an art gallery and never dreamed of getting paid to be a writer, I began a Wordpress blog. I wrote about whatever I felt like writing about and my blog developed a modest following. I never imagined that anyone would pay me to analyze the triple goddess symbolism in The Golden Girls, for instance, or speculate on the uncanny geometric properties of the Ghent Altarpiece, but that wasn’t the…