After a year of life changing events, most of them for the better, I found myself having exactly what I wanted and facing the "be careful what you wish for..." crossroad.
Moving from a developing country into a first world country I saw the opportunity of
+ more bio informationPictures are an incomplete account of a traveling experience. They will show a moment in time, they will capture the colors, the ambiance; they will remind you that you once were there. A travel journal allows the traveler to collect a compendium of details that will never be repeated. Pages upon pages of an individual's exp...
The internet is immeasurable and dimensionless. As content continues to be generated at astounding speed, as new companies emerge, as established internet giants continue to launch applications, improve technologies, and as brilliant young people create new and attractive ways for us to live this online life, there will be n...
A band needs a few tricks other than their talent to play music and write good songs. Like every other industry, you rely on communication and networking or word of mouth. In the case of music, word of mouth is the best way to get noticed. Of course it will only happen if in fact, the music is good. Once upon a time, a coupl...
Every morning, for the past year, the newspaper waits on my doormat. I usually read it over breakfast, which is by definition a bad combination, but when it's the only time of day that I have, I seize it. This is a habit I had done well without, but I recently moved to a new country and this is practically the daily ritual. ...
We buy online because it's convenient, as we do many of our daily activities, from vacation planning to gift and grocery shopping, it's easy, we can do it anytime of day and it doesn't even feel like spending! But the truth is that we must be careful, not only about the level of security but of the quality of the goods we bu...
Walking through the magazine aisle, among the hundreds of glossy covers, the airbrushed models, the photo montage of that knock-out BMW, the shiny colors of interior design, the wacky covers of alternative culture, among the eye catching titles that promise to solve your life or the gory details of the latest teen star in di...
Intellectual freedom is one of the strongest concepts to ever emerge from western civilization. We know what banning, censoring, rating and even hiding forms of expression do to a society. From book burning to book mutilation these so-called control mechanisms only hurt society's evolution and education. Today, the concept g...
Let's get one thing straight: blogging for money equals a day job. Why would you change your current day job for another? Because it gives you more. More satisfaction, motivation, encouragement. It ignites your passion and it allows you to maintain a certain quality of life. If you quit your day job and you march home with y...
Writers are lonely beings. They sit at a desk creating worlds while ignoring the one around them, as so dictates the stereotype, but it doesn't have to be. I have been writing for many years, at times I look up from my screen and realize that three days have gone by and I haven't had any human contact with others apart from ...
Misinterpretation of feminism is what should be under the microscope. As we live and read more and more about the trend of women trying to be 'perfect' under every circumstance, we veer towards the idea that feminism has reached its peak only to find that women are not meeting expectations and are ultimately burning out. Onc...
Isolde Marion
Member since: January 2007
Articles Written: 30