Achieve your goals even if you are facing a mountain of debt and your world is collapsing around you!

I recently watched an inspiring BBC TV show about Nick and Lesley Vallance. Her story teaches a lot about how to achieve your goals and dreams even when your world literally and metaphorically collapses around you and you have a mountain of debt that overshadows your life. Nick’s architecture business in Surrey had gone bankrupt. Instead of crawling into its […]

Kissing in a dream is not always what you think

We humans show our affection and love for each other, and our passion through a kiss. A kiss can soothe, calm, and even magically heal – a child will feel so much better after kissing his boo. In many cultures, but especially Western ones, a kiss is often the most intimate physical expression, sometimes considered more intimate even than sexual […]

State lines and PI: to cross or not to cross

State limits and PI: to cross or not to cross that is the question. A Shakespearean riddle. Your driver’s license is accepted in all 50 states. So is your marriage license. What about your IP license? NASIR stated, several years ago, that it hoped that one day the IP license would also be accepted in other states. Today this is […]

A summary of the symbolism of geography in The Great Gatsby

Political scientists will tell you that there is immense symbolic power in geographic opposition. Sometimes it is for obvious historical reasons, like East Germany versus West Germany. Other times, the naming mechanism itself is what carries the symbolic weight. For example, since North Dakota receives disproportionately fewer tourists each year than South Dakota, it has tried to remove the word […]