The Road Less Traveled

In 1915, the famed poet Robert Frost published a poem that would forever be referenced as a symbolic metaphor of life choices. The entirety of “The Road Not Taken” is an extended metaphor in which the road “less traveled” symbolizes the path of nonconformity. The speaker, when trying to choose which road to take, looks forContinue reading “The Road Less Traveled”

Pirate Republic to Thunderball

In the early 18th century, one small, salty, sun-splashed corner of the Bahamas was the epicenter of an organized crime wave that washed across the islands of the Caribbean and along America’s Atlantic coast. The Golden Age of Piracy lasted for thirty years from 1690 to 1720 and Nassau was at its heart. The eraContinue reading “Pirate Republic to Thunderball”