Nomadic Jane

If you’ve only worn sandals you bought from a major discounter, you are missing out on the beauty and comfort of handmade leather sandals. I wear my sandals year-round with pride. I get the occasional odd glance, but if you’ve worn handmade sandals yourself I think you’d understand.

I hated wearing mass produced sandals because I developed sores from them and they made my skin itchy anyplace they touched them. I swore never to wear sandals again after one really bad blister. I thought all sandals must be painful, so I just quit wearing them. Read the rest of this entry »

There were times when somebody wanted to see a movie, then the one and only option was to go to the local nearby movie theatre. Then came the era of videos, where you could easily record your desired movie from television and see them again and again, till the tape totally wore out. Purchasing movie videos means that you can watch your favorite movies prior to they came on television, generally after a very short time they came in the cinemas.

However, from last few years, technology has augmented at tremendous pace. You are no longer limited to watch movies at theaters or at television only, as now you have much more alternatives than the traditional ones. One can see movies online now. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s been almost a decade since the original Matrix movie introduced popular culture to the idea of reality as an illusion. Not that it’s new idea at the time – millenia worth of philosophers have been saying again and again that reality as we know it, reality as we sense it, cannot exactly be thought of and regarded as real. Our senses can deceive us, after all, and in the end, we cannot truly rely on the material as a gauge what reality, and thus meaning, is. It is the general consensus of the multitude of intellectual fans of the Matrix franchise that the 1999 film had managed to modernize the idea well enough for even the common man to grasp it.

The idea that reality is an illusion was wonderfully solidified by the fact that around that point, technology had advanced enough to create cyberspace and other forms of telecommunication – in essence, we had by then developed a separate reality in which we can function. Read the rest of this entry »

For the homeowner in search of a home equity line of credit the availability of interest-only home equity credit lines has drawn the interest of many who seek to benefit from the value of their homes. The name itself sounds too good to be true. A look at the details could cause the homeowner to think twice before seeking an interest-only home equity line of credit. Or those same details might spur the homeowner to contemplate yet another home equity line of credit. Read the rest of this entry »