Where will you be when it matters? Most people never choose where they live — they inherit it. But the ground beneath you decides how much you keep, how free you are, how safe you'll be, and how well you'd weather a crisis.The Survival Atlas grades every U.S. state and Canadian province against 25 factors — water, food, taxes, gun law, grid resilience, strategic risk, and more — through a single lens: freedom, self-reliance, and resilience. Each place earns an honest letter grade, A to F. ...

Life is a Beach: A tale of subculture in the early eighties.An unlikely group of friends take to the road in a classic camper. Destination the South of France, to become beach doughnut sellers. Based on a true story.This book is a window into 80's subculture in a seaside tourist town on the Mediterranean. Living on our wits and skills we weren't outlaws but were certainly outsiders. Shunned by some, and the authorities, we found our own path and filled the niches left open ...

One Small Chain. A series of Hotwife Adventures. Follow Alice as she embarks on the new found pleasures of becoming a Hotwife with her Cuckold husbands 'approval'.

The music industry has changed, and there has never been a greater time for independent artists to build a community of followers and fans through the myriad of new media tools available to them. As an independent musician, developing a profitable and sustainable music career is more realistic today than it has ever been in the past. However, in order to take advantage of the opportunities at hand, it is vital for career-minded musicians to understand the changes that the industry has gone...

A collection of hundreds of thoughtful and inspiring quotations from "the folksy god of American capitalism" ( Vanity Fair).For more than half a century, Warren Buffett, the chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, has been one of the world's most respected businessmen, not just because of his savvy investments and unmatched record of returns, but also because of his humility, candor, and refreshing perspective on wealth.Despite this tremendous succ...

Wounded Galaxies 1968 examines the relationship between radical politics, radical aesthetics, radical culture, and the legacy of a watershed year for the world. Like the Surrealists before them, 1968's counterculture believed that changing the world (politics) and changing art (life, culture) were part of the same project.This year saw violent protests and uprisings, including those at the National Democratic Convention in Chicago; the Prague Spring and subsequent Warsaw P...

Properly understood, sensitivity is a gift. But it may not feel that way at first. Having gone through a long series of disappointments, many artists come away crushed, feeling as though they are cursed to endure heartache and sadness for all eternity.Sensitive creatives feel deeply about everything. It's what makes them excellent artists, whether it's writing heartfelt song lyrics or channeling their anger into a breathtaking painting. But coping with the roller-coaster highs and ...

Living nomadically isn't just a lifestyle… It's a commitment. Once you embark upon the seemingly attractive prospect of traveling the world–or even just your country–while working remotely from a laptop, returning to the way things were is a far more onerous proposition than you might imagine, and not necessarily for all the reasons you would expect.You never know how life might begin to unfold while trying to stay on top of your freelancing career or online business. You may not b...

You are the exception and not the rule if you were born into notoriety. In this regard, most of us start on equal footing, looking for opportunities to rise above and position ourselves as experts, influencers, gurus, and celebrities, all for the sake of our artistic creations.That is, of course, until you let the futility of adulthood set in. Childhood dreams can seem so distant, elusive, and even impossible when you realize you haven't achieved even a quarter of what you once tho...

'In the spring of 1924 I was released from internment where I had been held for a year since the end of the Civil War in what was then the Irish Free State. I was a little over twenty-two years of age.' So begins this extraordinary memoir, in which C.S. ('Todd') Andrews gives a personal history of his varied and distinguished career in public service to the Irish state. The early chapters cover what were, for Andrews and his fellow republicans, difficult years under the government of Cuman...

Dublin Made Me, the first of C.S. ('Todd') Andrews' two celebrated volumes of autobiography, describes in loving detail the pre-independence Dublin in which the author grew up and provides a vivid participant's account of the War of Independence and the Civil War. Born in 1901, Andrews lived with his family in Summerhill until 1910, when they moved to the distant suburb of Terenure. Andrews' account of the two Dublins of his youth – the bustle, intimacy and poverty of the north side, and t...

Looking at it soberly, building an independent music career in today's tumultuous industry climate appears little more than a pipe dream. The so-called "experts" are either teaching musicians the thoroughly hopeless and ineffectual approach of going viral as a social media megastar, or the long, complicated, torturous path to building direct marketing digital sales funnels that leave more artists disappointed and disillusioned than not.The odds of making it? Don't even ask… You mig...