Ben Franklin’s 13 Virtues

What do they mean to us today?

Machiavelli on How To Play The Power Game

In 500 years of human development and technological…

5 Healthy Habits We Can Learn From the Japanese

Know the secret about a healthy diet

The Beauty in Vulnerability

What you’d find behind the fragile wall of your vulnerabilities.

30 Powerful Affirmations for Healing Your Mind and Attitude Every Day

Affirmations are crazy powerful…

Fly Fishing in the California Delta

Black Bass, Striped Bass, Catfish, Blue Gill, and Crappie

BITCOIN | FINANCE

Things I Wish I Knew Before Buying Bitcoin

I'm sharing my experience…

Can Spirituality Make You a Happy Person?

Is Religion a Sure Route to True Happiness in our Life?

Here’s Why Therapy Not Helping You?

If you have spent months in traditional therapy and still feels…

Bitcoin is Coal Currency

Proof of Stake will take over as the green choice

Military Strategy for Business

The art of survival and success in compelling environments

Whiteness

Shoplifting as White Privilege

Permission to screw up granted

Has your identity been stolen, and then you are asked to pay to get it back?

Perpignan, South of…

Daily Digest from ILLUMINATION

Featured Stories Issue #47

Selected stories from 9,400…

Writing Advice

Write Like No One’s Clapping

Medium is not Pavlov’s dog, or is it?

Who Are You Like In Real Life — Lord Krishna or Arjun?

A real-life experience that literary compares…

Maritime History

A Titanic Hero of Immense Courage

A modest man who almost died saving the lives of others

Losing Weight Is Too Over-Rated For Everyone At This Point

Sometimes it’s just not needed.

I’m so Fuc*ing Done with This Virus & Online Semesters!!

How Boxing Kicked My Butt, but I Still Kept Going Back for More

FICTION — SHORT STORY

The Flight

Twittling on the Train

Twittle Poems — Choo Choo

I Can’t See the Yard for the Weeds

When some people can’t see the forest for the trees.

After 7 months of writing on Medium: Here’s the Good, the Bad and the Ugly!

Medium is a level playing…

‘In The Name Of My Father’

A brief explanation about my book…

Increase Your Confidence by Increasing Your Bank Account

How Your Internal Compass Pushes Your Career Towards What You Genuinely Love To Do

How White Are White Lies

One bitter truth behind white lies.

You Are Not Alone: 5 Perfectly Normal Struggles Only People Who Write Will Understand.

Reading

Weekend Reading

Featured stories from ILLUMINATION this week

Congratulations Lockport IL, Strongest Town 2021

Congratulations to the citizens and the Team.

Day Tripping: April 17

Ponies, Pool, and Proclamations

POETRY

Inner Light

Feel it radiating from inside out

I Keep Writing New Posts & Abandoning Them Halfway Through

Here’s hoping I actually finish writing…

Expert Advice: Keeping Pets Safe While Away on Vacation

Please don’t let this happen to you and your…

For Audrey with Love

“I don’t take my life seriously, but I take what I do — in my life — seriously.”…

The Powerful Value Of Accepting And Expressing Your Negative Emotions

How Are You?

Reducing Financial Stress

Dads’ Survival Guide: Providing — Our Financials

It was a Beautiful Day

It was a beautiful day 
The weather was fine
The sky
Yellow blue and pink
The streets littered and red
With bodies
Very…

The French Lockdown

100 Days writing challenge — Episode 2

A Girl from Vienna

an anecdote from my mom’s life who died 10 years ago this month

FB Responses To The Crash Of A Cheese Truck

The truck carrying cheese rolled over

#ILLUMINATION100CHALLENGE — DAY 2

Will You Wait 20 Years For Success?

So many medical conditions are rooted in psychosomatic reactions to untreated emotional issues. The conditions are real. It's the treatment that needs to be looked at from the viewpoint of the soul.

How to Heal After Experiencing A Close Death

I’m no stranger to experiencing close deaths in my life. The first time it…

When You Set Out To Achieve A Goal, Are You The ‘All-Or-Nothing’ Type?

There’s a better way.

Nobody

A flash fiction

I wander down this road that leads nowhere. I came from nowhere. Not that I can remember. I…

3 Reasons Why You Need to Start Expressing Yourself

I used to hate expressing myself. For some reason…

You Only Turn 40 Once

So my then-wife told me, and she was very right

Too Cold

The Long Dark Passing Hours

Base Colours

A poem of colours.

A poem

They are All the Same Things

Paradoxes in life. Some food for thought, to connect, introspect and get…

Breastplate of Valour

No war can be fought under a peaceful blue sky

Why Your Cells Hate You

A story of cellular Uprising

The beginning

X Things I Learned From Teaching Young Children — 2. Character