Hawkeye State. The Hawkeye State is a popular nickname for the state of Iowa. According to the Iowa State web site, Two Iowa promoters from Burlington are believed to have popularized the name. The nickname was given approval by territorial officials in 1838, eight years before Iowa became a state.awkeye State. The Hawkeye State is a popular nickname for the state of Iowa. According to the Iowa State web site, Two Iowa promoters from Burlington are believed to have popularized the name. The nickname was given approval by territorial officials in 1838, eight years before Iowa became a state.
To be indifferent means you don't take sides, because you don't really care, or you are not interested. When they say they can't read you it means that you don't give away your feelings by your facial expression or body language. So people cannot look at you and work out what you think or feel about a situation.
Indifference is a power. As legions of warriors and prisoners can attest, Stoicism is not grim resolve but a way to wrest happiness from adversity. is features editor of Bangkok Post: The Magazine. He has written for the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Paris Review Daily, The Library of America Reader's Almanac, and others.