January 25, 2021

Great New Word Given to Me by a Handsome Man; Panache and Innuendo Defined; A Guide to Avoiding the Coronavirus; My Bed and Me Pakistani Clad; A Rainy Saturday in the Life of Alexis McBride; Most Unlikely, Extremely Unlikely

Today a certain man, who shall remain nameless, declared that his admiration was based upon what he called my panache.Me: I love that word. I do not know it –…

January 24, 2021

Changing One’s Status From Majority to Minority; I Have Overcome; The Glorious Gloria Answers Important Questions; Cogent Defined; Declaration of Feminism; Flower Arrangement Pictured and Disguised; Do Listen to Yusuf Estes

This from yesterday’s blog. “There is so much discussion since the inauguration about the accomplishments of minorities. But I am not a minority for several reasons, none of them my…

January 22, 2021

Beginning Again With Andy: Oh What a Beautiful Morning With An Inspiring Article From the New Yorker; Read It if You Dare: A Premiere of a Blog to Come; Incisive Defined; Photo of a Head-Saving Screen

During this hibernation period I sleep like a bear. Hours and hours and hours. It works wonders for the immune system, hence one of the best things a person can…

January 21, 2021

Here is the Inauguration and I am Watching; Extremely Positive Reaction to President Biden’s Speech; Three Confessions; Spot On, Its Origins; Amanda Gorman, the Highlight; Assuming the Rule of Women’s Clothes, Shoe and Hair Do Police; Me in Face Mask

First, two confessions. This is the first inauguration I have ever watched, at all. Never been invited to one, I once knew someone who was invited and went but to…

January 19, 2021

Here Comes the Inauguration; News from a Middle East Network Supplemented by Reliable Mainstream Television Reporting; Getting Off One’s Soapbox Defined and Illustrated; Then Such Positive News of the Inauguration Due to the Choice of Amanda Gorman; The Certainty of Good Prevailing Over Evil as Found in the Qur’an; Photographs of Daffodils

This from Al Jazeera, the network which approaches the news of the world in an intellectual fair and considered manner. Those in the know will know that Al Jazeera is…

January 18, 2021

So Positive To Be Old and To Be Me; Popularity Its Ups and Downs; The Ups and Downs of Facebook; The Downs of Instagram: An Instagram Admirer Returns During the Writing of the Blog; A Vancouver Buddy Also Returns: Also Because of My Sense of Humour; Ilk Defined; A GIF That I Love.

At the present moment watching Channel 9, listening to an interview with Justice Ginsberg by David Rubinstein. She was, of course, alive at the time of the interview. The experience…

January 17, 2021

Definitive and Modern Day Understanding of the Role of Women in the Islamic Faith; The Scholar, Activist and Author Amina Wadud Praised; Zahir Naik Also Mentioned and Praised; My Own Strange Ties to Malaysia; Brand New Car Picturing My Scottish Attire

Many of you may know that I first became drawn to the Islamic faith upon learning of its treatment and respect of women. The treatment was in marked contrast with…

January 16, 2021

Living in the Present So Difficult These Days, However, Andy Borowitz Provides Able Assistance; Crinkling With Delight; My Yard, a 1987 Photo Exhibit By Alexis McBride; Quotes From the Brochure; Wondering If The Place is Still There; Better Late Than Never

Today’s blog shall discuss the huge problem with living in the present at the present time. But hats off to Andy Borowitz whose humour based on current events does keep…

January 15, 2021

Beginning With Humour But Ending In The Description of a Day of Hell: Falling on Head Resulting in Hospital Emergency Room Experience During Which Texting with Doha Took Place; Hibernation Seems The Only Answer to Lockdown; Remonstrate Defined; Photographs of Bracelet; Swans and Eye Covering

Andy Borowtiz has done it again, turning a dreadful situation into an absurd one. So Trump’s funny colouring becomes a subject of scorn. In yet another rebuke to the disgraced…