I am so much more than meets the eye — Well, all you guys on Illumination-Curated know me as Liam Ireland, writer and editor at Illumination. Just like the rest of you I write articles, short stories and poetry, which I submit to this wonderful writers platform. I must admit that even as a professional writer in a previous life…

A collection of my best short stories — Since joining Illumination I have written quite a wide variety of articles, short stories and poems. However, like my life in general, it all became a bit of a clutter. …

Illuminating What It Takes To Succeed As A Writer On Illumination — As you read through this article, bear one thing in mind; myself and Tree Langdon, CPA, CGA, are fellow writers and co-editors of this article and we began our Illumination,Illumination-Curated,Technology Hits and Illumination Mirror journey just like you. …

Time seems to go by so fast these days, I think they speed up the older one gets. Anyway, with that troubling thought in mind, just to say that it is now three years since I embarked upon a labour of love, compiling and editing an eight volume collection of…

A lesson learned, with a twist at the end — A few years ago I was living in my home town, Bethlehem PA, when I passed through a difficult time with my fiance. Despite thinking we were on the same page as far as our future was concerned, I slowly began to realise that in fact, we were worlds apart…

It has become laughable — Yesterday I wrote about a problem I have been having dealing with a payment services processing set up called Stripe. It is they I have to apply to in order to withdraw the paltry sum of 108 dollars, for three years writing 400 plus stories on Vocal Media! …

Captured In A Musical Masterpiece Called Fairy Tale In New York. — It is a sense of great sadness that I speak of the passing of Shane MacGowan of The Pogues. Clearly, the man was a tortured soul with serious alcohol and drug addictions. As somebody once said, all great artists are also piss artists. It seems that getting spaced out of…

I Need You — Hello everybody. I hope you are all doing well. Recently, for the very first time, I tried to withdraw my money from Vocal Media via Stripe. I am now of the mind that it would be easier to extract an elephant’s tooth, going in at the arse end! First Stripe…

Even when it’s pouring down with rain — There are days when the sun is shining and everything in the garden is rosy. And there are days when the sky is full of clouds and it’s pouring down with torrential rain, metaphorically speaking. Today has been a perfect example of the latter. First off, due to having my…