It does seem rather unusual to be focusing on food in the days immediately preceding Ramadan. Rather like food before the famine. Strictly speaking, of course, Ramadan is not famine. Famine is extreme scarcity of…
I am perched high on a stool watching the chefs prepare breakfast and brunch food at Mojo Jojo. It is a treat to see the absolute efficiency and attention to detail that goes into the…
I am facing a change in my circumstances as I am nearing the end of my ninety day tourist visa. I am understandably a bit stressed as I am a woman without a country to…
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…
The climax of February 3, an amazing day of liberation was my learning that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that Canada will impose Canadian 155 billion (US 106 billion) in tariffs on American products…
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…
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…
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…
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”…
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…