Activity Archives - Alexis McBride

February 9, 2025

Malaysia Loves Me With Statistical Proof: Both the Blog and Instagram; Beleaguered Defined with Two Examples; Busy and Eventful Day. Adventurous Cuisine; Jovial Australians; Then a Mani and Pedi at Vintage Nails; I am not Infamous, Instead Legendary; Many Photos of a Great Stupendous Day

Upon awakening on February 7, 2025 I opened an email from Computer Guru Chris:He: Hi – posted, stats attached, you big ol’ bon vivant you. Seeing is believing – wait until you see. These statistics…

May 12, 2024

No News is Good News Vs. All The News That is Fit to Print Vs. That’s News to Me; The Truth is Almost Impossible to Ascertain; Thomas Friedman Speaks of Saudi Arabia; Impartial Defined; The Importance of Investigative Journalism; You Do Find the Truth of This Blog Here You find the Truth; Off to Malaysia: Photos of Greetings and Colorful Attire

I am exhausted just from writing the title. Perhaps I can just stop with the title, and you can use your imagination for the rest. I would hate to be a faithful reader of this…

September 24, 2023

Saudis Know How to Do Things; An Absolutely Unbelievable Saudi National Day: Saudi Facts, Saudi Fun and Constitution Compared to Canadian and US Versions; In My Life; Boisterous and a Bedouin Tent Reel; Photos of Celebrants and a Camel and His Caretaker

I constantly am shaking my head in sheer wonderment. Me: Those Saudi’s know how to do things!! Alter Ego: What do you mean? Me: Absolutely everything they do. If is totally mind boggling! Entirely!!! Alter…

September 1, 2023

Going Back in Time via Past Blogs Reveal That I Got Fooled: Sham, Naive and Chagrin Defined; Up to No Good; Something is Rotten in the State of Denmark; Two Cartoons and a Reel from The Edge of the World in Saudi Arabia

I undertook a trip backward in time to try and understand the mysteries of the magazine, when it was found in the first place and then to understand how it was lost – the mysterious…

August 27, 2023

Trepidation with Some Synonyms; Custom Defined; Positive Attributes of Saudi Arabia Delineated; Least Desirable to Second Most Desirable; However Heebie-Jeebies; The Quran Supplies Guidance; Photographs and Reels of Good Times With Good People

Occasionally I have a word of the day, sometimes it is a song of the day, sometimes it is an idiom of the day. It is my custom to look up the song, the idiom…

August 13, 2023

Evidence of the Effectiveness of the Edmonton Escape; Nothing Left to Chance Defined: No Stone Unturned; You Can’t Get Something For Nothing: Taking Clean Teeth to Saudi Arabia; London Drugs Will Enlarge Two Photos; To Art of Cake for Two Treats; White Dress and Role Model Found; More Word Definitions; Another ‘Coincidence”; The Photos and Alexis’Abaya

I do admit to an excruciating ecstasy I find in naming – people, places, and things. Naming people takes the form of nicknames, The naming of things is more complex – Saudi Sojourn: my recent…

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 fault. Read about my majority…

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 do for themselves. Type immune…