[ad_1] I must live in a bubble. Because in my circle, I don’t know anybody who has a car worth more than 1/10th of their annual gross income. My dad drives a 28 year old car that’s worth maybe $500 and he has a government pension worth at least 100X that. I drive an 11 […]
Grace Invites Inspiration: The Courage of Sandman’s Muse
[ad_1] “Where does that voice come from?” Far be it for me to speculate on the nature of inspiration. Fortunately, I have plenty of fodder to draw from in the final, disconnected vignettes of the Netflix series Sandman, season 1, episode 11, part 2 of which is titled “Calliope.” We begin in a university lecture […]
Antonio Muñiz: Between Fire, Freedom, and the Infinite
[ad_1] The Architect Who Unbuilt the Walls The story of Antonio Muñiz begins not in a gallery, but in a modest room in Chihuahua, México, where a nine-year-old boy painted the four enclosing walls of his mother’s house. This first act of creation planted the seed of artistic inquiry in Muñiz, whose work now moves […]
Gilberto Rivera’s ‘Jailbirds’ Imagine Freedom Within Confine…
[ad_1] At the Center for Art & Advocacy, a solo exhibition by Gilberto Rivera meditates on the material conditions of both confinement and liberation. Jailbirds presents a series of mixed-media collages that map the prison cell onto wood panel, with a variety of avian species as their protagonists. Incarcerated for two decades himself, Rivera draws […]
What I Learned About Blogging, Money, and Freedom
[ad_1] This year marks 14 years of blogging for me. Every year, I like to reflect on my blog and the business that I’ve built. Here’s what I think about blogging after earning over $5,000,000 and working online for over a decade. Over a decade ago, I started this blog with no real plan. I […]
On Frontlines of Freedom: Illegal Aliens and Crime
[ad_1] Dr. John Lott talked to Col Denny Gillem on Frontlines of Freedom about Lott’s recent piece titled “Crime Rates of Illegal Migrants Underreported.” (Sunday, June 22, 2025) [ad_2] Source link
The Choices We Make To Achieve Financial Freedom Aren’t For …
[ad_1] After publishing Why We Keep Spending Even Though We Know We Shouldn’t, I realized something important: the real reason I wasn’t willing to spend on a vacation rental this summer is because we no longer have financial freedom. I didn’t think about this fact until after I got a lot of feedback from readers on […]
Your Path to Financial Freedom (And Achieving Your Rich Life…
[ad_1] Financial freedom is when money no longer limits your choices but instead becomes a tool to design your ideal life. This guide shows you how to get there, with clear steps to build wealth, eliminate stress, and design a life on your terms. What is Financial Freedom? Financial freedom is having your passive income […]
Let’s Talk About Werewolf Movies (and Freedom in God’s Love)
[ad_1] Film as dream, film as music. No art penetrates our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.~Ingmar Bergman My daughter was terrified of werewolves. And of going mad. The former was a childhood reaction to scary monsters; the latter preyed […]
Cops Took My Christmas Bike. Now I Give Kids the Freedom To …
[ad_1] Bicycles and the winter holiday season have always been tied up together for me. They speak to love, freedom and the loss of it, shame — and revolutionary acts of philanthropy by formerly incarcerated people. My earliest Christmas memory stars a deep purple bike with a banana seat and cruiser-style handlebars. It was 1960, […]