How ADHD derailed my late 20s (and why RSD keeps me from being friends with my ex)

Practice More, Consume Less

The advice I wish I had in my early twenties

A History of Men’s Genitals in Western Art

From Stone Age shamans to naughty Mediaeval marginalia

To the Pet Owners Who Love Their Pets but Can’t Afford My Services

3 Lessons I Learned Spending An Afternoon With President George H.W. Bush

Relationships: Possessive is Acceptable Abusive is Not

The line between them is fine yet visible

A Simple Change Boosted My Weight Loss — No Effort, Only Benefits.

Hint: Not exercise or reducing…

How Hookups Could Negatively Affect Your Future Relationships

You may think it’s only a “One Night”…

Why Nice Guys Always Come Last

Photo credit christian buehner

Shifting Writer’s Block With Energetic Self-Care

Befriending and caring for your sacral chakra

6 Habits of Highly Effective Content Creators That Makes Their Work Stand-Out

No matter what type of…

Blockchain

I Sold a Large Part of My Portfolio To Buy More Cryptocurrencies

The Problem of Evil, Suffering and Entropy

Why none of these are incompatible with theism

Challenging the Divine — Does Qur’anic Verse 4:34 Deliver a Free Pass for Muslim Men to Beat Their Wives?

Prayer Could Be Hurting Your Life In More Ways Than One

You’ll find that God may not have any interest…

This 10 Minute Morning Routine Will Power-Up Your Day

Three simple actions to start your day off…

All Arts are One Art

Mastery and the Ineffable Magic of Self-Expression

The Main Reason I Hated “Moxie.”

Among many reasons to hate it

Simply Grand

A salute to my grandparents — with an admission of guilt

Pause the “Doing” and Take Time for Simply “Being”

When did you last pause?

Can You Actually Earn Passive Income Writing on Medium?

The full answer is “it depends.”

How to Balance Truth with Kindness

Working with the Yogic principles of sattva and ahimsa for…

From My Small boobs To Your Big boobs

I envy you.

The Linear Lie We Try to Live

Our lives and careers are not linear. Stop thinking of them in those…

Bill Gates Predicted Peoples of These 3 Fields Will be Very Successful in Future

Gear up yourself to…

Police, Racism, and the Conversation we’re not allowed to have

How Much Money You Can Make With 100 Reads On Medium.

No matter how much you make, at the end it all…

1 Habit Which Will Increase Your Wealth & Provide You Mental Peace

And yes, it can be adopted easily!

Multi-faceted Toxic Culture in America’s Police Agencies is the Real Culprit

And it always has been…

7 Habits We Can Easily Copy from Rich People

Which have allowed me to acquire a mental wealth which…

Religion’s Biggest Problem

How the monotheistic God isn’t all-loving

Morning Pages: A Philosophy

What are morning pages, and are they useful?

Daily Digest from ILLUMINATION

Featured Stories Issue #56

Selected stories from 9,500…

What I Learned From Publishing 300 Articles on Medium

Knocked Up Satire

COVID-19 Vaccine Impregnates Woman

Take that, baby Jesus

Smartphone Photos Are Dumb!

Go Back to Old Ways For A New World?

Life Is Best Lived With Death

Arguing otherwise will only cause you suffering.

The Real Cost of Sunbathing: Skin Cancer Explained Simply

There’s a reason sunscreen exists…

Is Bill Gates Lying?

Intellectual Property Rights and the fight to vaccinate the world

How People Make Tons of Money from YouTube

YouTube could be a good carrier choice as well

Lessons From a Narcissist

How he helped me forge better relationships

The Outlook Rule That’s Saved My Skin

…multiple times.

Sick of Reading Articles About Writing?

Here’s what to do.

My Songwriting Process

How I’ve approached songwriting through the years

The Further Adventures of Colombe

Part 1: An author meets a descendant of her fictional character

Mobile Voting — A Revolutionary Way Of Voting

Unavoidable truth: ‘wisdom’ is just a fancy label for ‘thoughtfully distilled experience’

The Future Will Be Claimed By Free Thinkers

The riches go to those who learn to think for themselves

I lost weight over 15 years ago and have kept all the habits to stay in shape

How to Celebrate Achievements Gamefully

By approaching them mindfully, incrementally, and playfully

5 Reasons You Aren’t Getting Enough Traffic from Pinterest

It’s not as mysterious and complicated as…

The One-Word Fix

One Simple Linguistic Trick to Improve Your Communication For The Better

Turning back Time

Or is it onward and upward?

Mental Health

Does Choosing Peripheral Awareness of the Horrible Things in the World Make You Selfish?

WRITING

Why I Want To Write Fiction In 2021

Educational reform

How Education Is Failing To Fulfil Its Duty.

It's time for a…

POETRY

That Silliness Inside

Let the inner child surface

Crucial Better Choices Future Me Needs Today Me to Make

If your future self were here, what would they…

3 Reasons Why You Owe Your Life to Social Media And Why It’s Destroying You

It’s the abusive father we…

Psychology, social life, self-help,

3 Signs You Are Destroying Your Relationship With People

Black in Whiteface Black

A contemporary poem

Michael Collins: ‘The Forgotten Astronaut?’

A tribute to the man who died on this day … April 29th

3 Leadership Lessons From the Master

Never seen a country coming to halt when Sachin would be on 99.
Never seen heard any cheer as…

LGBTQ | Allyship | Personal Growth | Relationships

G is For Growth When Defining LGBTQ With Some New…

I Say “The Yea” To Two Women, and to the Kentucky Governor and Legislature

History made (again) by…

Day Tripping: April 29

Evacuations, Infiltrations, and Celebrations

INSPIRATION

As A Writer: I Am Seriously Concerned About You

Seriously.

Wonder of Life

A micro poem

This may be you 
when the cloud takes
your overcast 
soul.

Your Sign to Get Up and Get Going

Stop telling yourself you’re going to start tomorrow

Abundance

A telling haiku

What is abundance?

Is it the absence of lack?

Or feeling wholeness?

I Still Type “Condolences”

No one taught us how to mourn and have funerals online.

What Not To Do When You Have Bedbugs

A story of sleepless nights and terror.

Is Email Marketing DEAD? Again?

Welcome to My Email Marketing Hub

Business Stuck in a Slump?

Here’s how to change that

We’ve all been there

Mental Health And Developmental Issues With Children

Many are suffering

Wisdom from the top eight billionaires in America

I posted a leadership article to ILLUMINATION-Curated today.

Three Quick Ways to Discover Your Purpose in Life

And why you should pursue it

A Good Life Checkup

To help you move forward and get back on track.

Why You Should Stay

Poetry for an anxious heart

Marry My Daughter?

Make me a promise

The Epilogue

A poem

Stage I 
Laying face down on the bathroom floor, 
with the topaz tiles echoing shivers into…

Allow Yourself to Disconnect For One Day And See What Happens

7 Easy Steps

COVID-19

The First Casualty of War Is Truth, in a Pandemic It’s Logic

Erasure Of Yesterday’s Writings

The best mindset for a writer to use, or is it the worst?

Raindrops

Poetry

As the raindrops fall, what if they turned into flowers? Showering us with petals and stems instead of…

Self Improvement … Choice … Change

The Life Changing Power of Light Will Change Your Self Perception

How to sell when no one else is

Free training you can put to use everywhere!

The Daily Dose: Persistence

“I’ll just take a quick break.”

100 Days Writing Challenge

Why Do We Read?

This is my take on reading — Episode 14

I’m Used To It

Poetry for an anxious heart