Art and Culture Archives - Alexis McBride

February 6, 2025

My Malaysian Profile: From Recluse to Bon Vivant; The Alexis McBride’s Bon Vivant Day Diary; Recluse, Bon Vivant and Pass Muster Defined: Meeting a Fellow Saskatchewanian, Even a Reginan; Instagram Comments and Likes; Photos of Three of the Players, A Foodie Photo and a Photo of Same Time Last Year; Reel of Eating in the Malay Fashion

I will begin in my typical fashion by defining terms. A recluse is a person who lives a solitary life and tends to avoid other people, There are religious recluses sometimes also called ascetics, monk,…

January 8, 2025

A Potpourri of Ideas, Instagram Inspiration in Various Forms, Bye, Bye Justin; Mutual Admiration Society Between Bloggingbrooke and Myself; I am Woman; Foodie Photos; A Commercial for Kashmir Restaurant

Potpourri is a a mixture of things, especially a musical or literary medley. Definitely this is going to be a mixture of things. You will observe this as you read on, if you do not…

December 26, 2023

A Bahrain Boxing Day; Exposé Delayed; Learn that Yawning is Contagious; Morning Walk Becomes Aerobics Instruction and Golf Cart with Chauffer; Conversation with Burgeoning Blogger; Meeting Another From Bahrain; Reels of Playground and Boycotting for Palestine; View From My Window and City View

Woke early and offered my 4:57 Fajr prayer. Examined comments made by new friends on Instagram, while sipping espresso coffee. Today is the day after Christmas – a nothing day in the USA but a…

December 22, 2023

Leaving the Womb of the Medina Oberio Hotel; Caesarian Explored; Obedience Defined, Explained and Contrasted; A Replay of My December 25, 2022 Blog; Two Reels, One Also on Instagram

I leave this womb tomorrow. Since it is planned it must be a a Caesarian section. Hahaha!!! The origins of that word are fascinating, something unknown until a few minutes ago. Dates from the early…

December 16, 2023

Christmas 2023; Christmas Music is Actually Motivational and Spiritual; Mundane Defined; The Plight of the Humane Christians During This Time Where the Baby Jesus Would Have Been Blown to Smithereens; Compassion and Pity Are Blessings and a Defense Against Anger and Pity; A Condensed Story of the Factual Birth of Jesus; Photographs of a Wordy Scholarly Pamphlet

I know that it is the Christmas season. Alter Ego: How do you know Alexis? You are living in Medina – to say the very least the people in that chosen city are not celebrating…

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…

January 28, 2021

Back to the Middle East, Ignored So Long; Peachy Keen for the Emir of Qatar; Conversation with Care Giver About the Nature of Love; Conversation with Old/New Guy; I Shall Return Says Alexis to Fans; Photograph Showing the Two Unicorns Illustrating Ambivalence and Two Life Styles

This blog was to feature the concept of evil in the Islamic faith, but changed my mind. Perhaps the next blog as it is partially written. Faithful readers will wonder what happened to my obsession…

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 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 President, the nation’s major manufacturers…