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February 1, 2025

Suspended Animation: The Way of Ease Explained and Fortunately Illustrated; Ease Almost Overlapped the Awful Hardships; A Driver Enables a Photographed Haircut; A Chance Encounter with a Young Chinese Woman Brings Great Joy; Truth is Stranger than Fiction Illustrated Through Prior Blogs; Photographs of She and Me: and My Hair Over Time.

Residing in Penang during Chinese New Year is a most extraordinary experience. It is a case if suspended animation. Everything is delayed, nothing happens until after Chinese New Year. And I do mean nothing. Countless…

January 29, 2025

The Decline and Fall of Alexis McBride; To the Emergency Room in a BMW Driven by my Son; Treatment for Painful Neck, Collar, Patches and a Writing Desk; You Shine From Within; Photos of Me at my Writing Desk; Diners at the Kashmir Restaurant and a Man Not my Son

That is the only expression I can think of at this moment. I have declined and fallen. It is usually associated with the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire a six volume book written…

January 27, 2025

Finding Love Just Where We Are is Breakfast Song; Popular Defined and Experienced; Go With the Flow; Hide and Seek with a Three and a Half Year Old; Problem Solving with my Tailor; Perhaps Bloggingbrooke is Bound for Malaysia; Photos of a Covered Me Eating Papadams and Greeting Kashmir Restaurant Patrons.

It is Sunday morning. I am at breakfast. I was starving so ordered from the brunch menu, my very favorite dish. The tomato rigatoni. Photo will follow. I made brief contact with my new family…

January 25, 2025

Getting the Lay of the Land; Blog Readers Now Surround Me; Venturing Out of my Cocoon Brought New Adventures; Making New Friends; Malaysian Women Come to My Rescue; Deja Vu Brings Back Aunt Alice; Photos of Pool, Gym, View and a Random Man

Getting the lay of the land is, of course, an idiom that suddenly came to mind. Googled to find, yet again, that it absolutely described what I was attempting to convey. “Lay of the land”…

January 23, 2025

Back into the Political Scene using the Wisdom found in Walrus Pointing to Biden’s Culpability Allowing Trump’s Election; Then Finding Focus Through Prayer and Discussing Infertile and Barren Women; My Thankfulness in Being Childless and Researching Reasons Why I was Able to Remain So; A Prior Blog Discusses Saudi Overpopulation and its Consequences; Empathy Found in Washington Much to Wonderment of All; Photos of Lyf Signage Offering Encouragement

I try my very best to stay out of politics, particularly US politics, but sometimes I cannot help myself. Today was such a day. Reluctantly I began reading an article on Walrus, a Canadian online…

January 21, 2025

Switched At Birth; Perhaps a Former Life Instead; Not Really Alone at Breakfast; My Blog Shown to be a Sleeping Potent; No Fury Like a Woman Scorned; Restaurant Rules During Ramadan Revealed; A Powerful Reassuring Instagram Reel Brings Joy AND Recognition from the Author: Borowitz Humor; Reel Showing Only Defense Against Trump, Israel and Evil; Papadums; Photos of Uncovered Malaysian Women

This morning at breakfast wrote an email with the subject line: Switched at BirthMe: A sudden thought struck last night when walking hone from being with your father and your dog (hahaha). I had the…

January 19, 2025

My Love/Hate Relationship with Instagram; First Speaking of Love, the Receiving of Inspiration; Then the Hate; Conveying Lies and Misinformation; Examples Given: Many Jokes Made by Handsome Man and Myself; Photos of Bag, the Man and Me; Breakfast and a Positivity Reel

I will begin with my praise of Instagram for its occasional inspiration, giving examples. Then turn to the evil that is pervasive, because it gives equal weight to lies and the truth. This morning I…

January 17, 2025

The Morning After the Night Before; Satire Shall Conquer the World, I Do Believe; Satire From Earlier Canadian Times; Al Jazeera Speaks Eloquently of Ceasefire: Photos of Opening Celebration and an Instagram Me Time Story

This is now the morning after the night before.usually refers to the unpleasant results of an earlier activity, especially overindulgence in alcohol. OR the day something has happened or someone has done something, especially something…

January 15, 2025

The Excitement is Building; Invitation Brings the Inevitable Quandary, What to Wear; Back to the Wisdom of Herman Hesse; Some Meaningful Quotations Including Two of My Favorites; Photos Of BEST DAY EVER; A Full Moon and a Lyf Car Park Sign

Lyf Hotel Grand Opening excitement is building. An elaborate sign has been under construction in the courtyard for several days. Now I understand its message. The letters finally in place it read: BEST DAY EVER….

January 13, 2025

My Life is Becoming a Way of Ease with the Assistance of a Benevolent Benefactor Who Has Taken me Under His Wing; Words and Idioms Explained: A Gift, a Granddaughter Wearing a Colorado USA T-shirt; Learning of the Causation of LA Fires from Al Jazeera; Magnificent Views from Nearby Malaysian Hotel Posted on Instagram and YouTube; Photos of Food

What has paved the way on the Straight Path is that a man, a beneficent benefactor has taken me under their wing. That expression just came to me. I think in idioms for some reason….