lifestyle – Page 2 – Alexis McBride

September 6, 2023

The Quest Continues: Onto Medina for the Concluding Chapter of This Portion of the Saga; A Hardship Brings the Benefit and Joy of the Medina Oberlio Hotel; A Chance Encounter, a Series of Conversations Surprisingly Results in the Discovery of the Culprit; A Joke Involving An Admonition; Admonition Defined; Photographs and a Reel of the Culprit to follow

The reel found in the September 4, 2923 blog shows how happy I was when I left Jeddah. I had found not just one, but two copies of My Magazine at ‘home’ with the Saudi…

September 5, 2023

Questioning My Fate, My Role in All of This, Finding Relief in a Profound Saying by Mary Lou Angelo; The Next Chapter Finds Alexis and AK in Jeddah’s Old City; Hang Onto Your Hat; An Enormous Surprise; Ripped Worn, Tired But There: Proof Shown by Photographs and Others Showing the Beauty of the Old City

I am taking all of this very seriously. You: What is all this? Me: What was I doing with the magazine in the first place? Why did I find it in my possessions at exactly…

September 4, 2023

REPOST – No Time to Write; You Get Pictures Instead For Awhile But There is Late Breaking Incredible News: I FOUND MY MAGAZINE.

They say that a picture is worth a thousand words. “A picture is worth a thousand words” is an adage in multiple languages meaning that complex and sometimes multiple ideas can be conveyed by a single still “…

September 4, 2023

Unpleasantness on the Home Front; Better Safe Than Sorry; Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder: Back to the First Absolutely Amazing Magazine Sighting: Life is Not Perfect; July 11, 2023 Photographs

This has not been an altogether blessed morning – that is for sure. The air quality index is 11, deemed a very high health risk. This Health information is provided: “Reduce or reschedule strenuous exercises…

September 3, 2023

Bowed But Not Broken; Lying Hell and Hardship Experienced; The Prophet Isiah; Canada Provides Respite; An Umrah Pilgrimage Brings the Heroine to Saudi Arabia Where She is Shown the Truth; A Return Trip to Saudi Arabia Both Fun and Fruitful; Photos and Reels of the Fun

The last installment found me in Dubai, meeting the Sham Judge and the Sham Sultan, relinquishing the treasured magazine to the later. For a period of time, the magazine was, admittedly. one of the last…

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 31, 2023

An All-Consuming Quest, The Story Continues: Quest Explored With the Able Assistance of Wikipedia; Misappropriate the Word of the Day; An Analysis of This Particular, Peculiar Quest; All Bets Are Off as to the Outcome; A Reel Brings Humor; Photo of the Day Before and a Framed Poster

Faithful and observant readers will note that my December 14, 2022 has been featured and reposted. It shall serve as the introduction to the tale of a which has consumed my psyche, my energy, and…

August 30, 2023

Reposted – PLEASE EVERYONE HELP ME GET MY MAY 31, 1943 LIFE MAGAZINE BACK

Now this is a true story – all of my stories are true stories, this one is not even exaggerated Somehow, and I do not know how, I had this absolutely precious, treasured magazine which…

August 29, 2023

Waking Up to the Greatest Emails; Soon Leaving: Will There Be a Trace Left Behind; Crocodile Tears Used by Shakespeare Repeatedly; Two Instagram Reels, One Thoughtful; The Other Fun

This last Sunday morning I awoke to two superb emails. One from my Computer Guru and one from AK. Both were so encouraging, so loving, so absolutely everything. I will now share some of what…

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…