islam Archives - Alexis McBride

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 28, 2023

New Revised About Me; The Final Edition

The About Me section of this blog has been ‘revised’ several times. It is time to do it again, as again circumstances have changed. Not only the circumstances but the Who I Am Has Changed. I am…

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…

January 3, 2023

Loving Being Home For Many Reasons; Lot in Life Brings Forth Many Wisdoms Found in the Hebrew Bible, Which Is, Of Course, Incorporated into the Islamic Faith; Ecclesiastes Found, Revisited and Quoted at Length; But Humor Comes to the Rescue with Our Favorite Andy Borowitz; Photo of Engrossing Book

I love being home for many reasons. I have been home now for ten days and in an entirely different mind set. The Christmas Eve 2022 Alexis is not the January 3, 2023 Alexis and…

January 2, 2023

Tennyson’s The Death of an Old Year ; My Instagram Image Has Radically Changed; The Evolving Islamic Faith of Sheikha Fatimah; Fillip Defined; Covid Tests for Chinese Travelers Welcomed; Mail Brings Covid-19 Guidance by the Government of Canada: Snow Removal Information Proves Edmonton is Well Planned and Organized

This is a new day, this is a new year. “I love my coffee black and my mornings bright” is a quote that comes to mind. Not altogether accurate – the bright is right but…