Category: lifestyle

Positivity Prevails: Do Not Count Chickens Before They Are Hatched; A Typical Saudi Conversation; All Aboard for Adventure Explored: A Buffet Breakfast Brings Joy, With a Touch of Sorrow; Ebullient Defined; All Praise to the Medinah Oberlio Hotel: The Importance of Friday Prayer; Photos of Lobby, a Sushi Platter, B & W Me and Wonder Woman Boots

The daily blog was almost written, the word count was over one thousand. The title was chosen: Cushy Job, Mull and Microcosm Defined With Examples.  Good and Bad News From Edmonton. But events of yesterday…

News From California Brings Warning to Alberta: Unlikely Gives Way to Improbable: May Anne Provides An Invaluable Marin Public Health Update; Saudi Coronavirus Status; Marin County Wastewater Analysis Signals Return of the Mutated Virus; Preparations Being Made in Contrast to Edmonton, Alberta; Efforts to Terminate Lease Frustrating; Thobe Defined with Grandson Photo; Framed Photos of Edmonton Spectacular Sunsets 

All of this is utterly, entirely and completely unlikely. Unlikely is not a strong enough word, there must be another. Improbable is a slight improvement: unexpected and apparently inauthentic. The origins of this word does…

Leftovers and Then Arab Unity; The Conclusion from Islam in Perspective, Followed by a Suggestion to Arab Leaders which Would Result on Them Being on the Same Page; Only MBS Can Pull it Off; A Liar Hoisted in His Own Petard Makes a Brief Appearance in My Life: Head on Chopping Block; A Simple Dua For All; Photos of Earlier Times and Palestine; Peace Not Apartheid

  Such a catchy beginning to the title. Leftovers and then Arab Unity. It makes me laugh and entices me to read more. But I cannot, being that I an the writer not the reader….

A Little Humour Can Go a Long Way; Andy Horowitz of the New Yorker to the Rescue; Being a Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs; Being an Alexis Anomaly; Defined; A Refuge in the Best Refuge Camp in the Whole World; More Thoughts on Palestine But Then Back to Humor on the Rainy Highway; Reel of Windshield Wipers and Alexis Sipping Arab Coffee in Starbucks

I readily admit that I have gotten far too serious of late. I also readily admit that my seriousness, concern and massive research has done absolutely nothing to remedy the genocide taking place in Gaza….

Al-Hadee, The Guide; A Prophetic Name Chosen at Random; Prophetic and Up Close an Personal Defined; Sense of Humor Proclaimed My Favorite Trait; Examples of Sense of Humor; Reaching a Detente With Instagram, not a Truce: Arab Unity Essential; Photo of My Book Shelf; A Counting Device; A Reel of Arabic Pronunciation

Began the day with Fajr prayer, drank some coffee did some outreach then randomly chose a name  from my book The Beautiful Names of Allah. It was Al-Hadee, The Guide. It could not have been more perfect, it could not…

The Meaning of Alexis, My Birth Name: So Happy Not to Be Named After a Saskatchewan City; Alix a Diminutive: Wikipedia Speaks Also of My Muslim Name Fatimah; Events of October 25, 2023 and September 29, 2023 Have Intertwined Meanings; It is Said My Face Shines and That I Have a White Heart; Photos Illustrating All That Has Been Said

I have two first names. The first, the name given at my birth. Then much later my Muslim name : Fatimah. Interestingly, I know more about the meaning of my Muslim name, than my birth…