Known for her humor, captivating storytelling, and tenacity to continue working at her craft, despite falling victim to Ireland’s repressive book-banning policies, Maura’s perseverance, talent, and cooking expertise deemed her a national treasure. Introduced to America via several short stories she...
become synonymous with understanding […]. The world ‘as we see it’ […] has become the measure for what is ‘real’ and ‘true’”. Thus, we ignore that the world we feel to be real becomes so only through “the continual recurrence of identical, familiar, related things in their ...
A child's accommodation to peer expectations can temper or compensate for his or her inner expectations. The Theory of Inner and Outer Expectations In a previous PT blog post, I introduced Gretchen Rubin's Four Tendencies theory. This theory suggests that differences in achieving happiness can be...
By my defintion, avarice is a very strong desire to hold on to what is already yours, even to the point of living in a state resembling poverty when you have plenty of money saved away. Greed refers to the extremely strong desire to acquire more, even to the point of taking it unlawfu...
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Welcome to WeeklyWilson.com, where author/film critic Connie (Corcoran) Wilson avoids totally losing her marbles in semi-retirement by writing about film (see the Chicago Film Festival reviews and SXSW), politics and books---her own books and those of other people. You'll also find her dive...
Also Ireland’s and Italy’s? Come now. What politician is going to tell the strongest voting group (old people vote) that to help out those deadbeats of the south, Germany has to starve its elderly retirees? And what bureaucrat would let go of the bridle of extortion/blackmail he has ...
The memory of childhood skies seems to be the most compelling evidence in favor of the “chemtrail” theory. It’s interesting. Were the skies actually different? Is there any significance to their memories? Could it be tested – ask people a neutral question about the occurrence of contrail...
But perhaps the knowledge that we can live perfectly well without a partnership means that it takes much more to persuade people to abandon their independence. In theory, finding a partner should be much simpler these days. Only a few generations ago, your choice of soulmate (心上人) was ...
of presidentialism and president-parliamentarism relative to premier-presidentialism etc, or is it better to test for the effect of presidential power scores that capture such power continuously and in a much more fine-grained way, but that doesn’t allow you to say anything about regime types?