Category: lifestyle

Winter Has Arrived According to my iPhone; This Was the Winter of our Discontent; A Study of Its Origins; Warm the Cockles of My Heart Explored; A Chance Encounter on An Elevator Leads to Questions of Normalcy and Ordinary Lives; New Hairdo Wins Compliments; Extraordinary Explored; Photo of New iPhone Screensaver

Seasons are a novelty to me. Not brand new, but unusual because, although I lived with seasons until 1967, now their fifty-five year absence have made them a them a distant memory. I returned to…

The Dangers of Entering Into a Conversation with Certain Misguided Individuals; Examples Given With Lessons Learned; A Magnificent Public Education Rally Right in My. Own Back Yard; Stereotype Defined: A Stylish New Hairdo Shown on a Funny Instagram Video; Bunny Alexis and Two Exes on Another Video; Photographs of the Public Education Rally; Into Each Life Some Snow Must Fall

These are, for many reasons, troubled times both here in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and throughout the world. It is rather easy to focus, and occasionally identify and become overwhelmed with, the mess in which we…

Today is a Big Day But Being Spent in a Small Way, Not Like Last Year’s Anniversary; Memories of 2021 Anniversary; Getting My Fifth Vaccine and the Benefit of a Flu Shot; Red Letter Day Defined; Scientific Article Provided Showing Covid Still With Us; Photos of Clouds and an Instagram Video Speaking of Their Significance as Their Heaviness Recorded in the Quran

Today is a big day – it is the second anniversary of my reversion to the Islamic faith. For various reasons it is an IN day, spent totally alone and, blessedly at peace. There is…

An Alexis Overhaul, a Revamping is in Order; Overhaul Defined: Eleven Steps Leading to Revamping; Building a New Blueprint; I am Sunshine to a Sheriff;  Distinguishing Between Muslims and the Islamic Faith; Travel Books to Follow on Blog; Photos of Made in Canada and An Example of a Clumsy Barista Attempt

I attempted to find a word to describe my current state of mind. The closest I could come up with is regroup. Found by googling that it can individual context: to stop for a short…

Homelessness Continued from Prior Blog; Excellent Detailed Definition: Homelessness Seems Impossible to Count Much Less to Remedy; Homelessness not on Agenda of Alberta’s New Premier Smith; Fled the USA and the UAE to Find Myself in Another Situation of Discrimination; Fifth Jab Scheduled for Tuesday; Photograph of “Protest” Pin and Autumn Leaves

This is a continuation of my October 6, 2022 blog which began a discussion of Edmonton’s huge problem – that of homelessness. A definition of homelessness began there and will be continued. This definition of…

Waking to an Amazingly Gratifying Message; Gratifying Defined; Warmed the Cockles of My Heart; LARGE Gets a Nickname; Good to My Word Defined and Illustrated: Patience Now Part of my Arsenal; Arsenal Defined and Arsenal Football Club Owner Under Investigation; Link to Article Provided, Some UAE Repercussions May Arise From Investigation; Back to Me Kicking Autumn Leaves with No Hijab

This October 12, 2022 morn I awoke to a text message that made my heart sing. It was so amazingly gratifying. I suppose we should, at this point, define gratify.  Its ‘nice’ definition is give…

October 10, 2022, The Best Thanksgiving Ever Along With Glimpses of Olde Thanksgivings; Some Humor and Some Pathos; Pathos Defined and Illustrated: A Glorious Sunrise Photograph From My Window; Posted on Instagram With a Conversation: Humor From Andy Borowitz From a 2021 Blog; Wallet Carelessly Left in Land Rover; An Instagram Link to the Most Beautiful Poem Ever Written; Photo of View and Me in Turquoise

Well, this has been the best Thanksgiving of memory. Memory has been buttressed by the blog so we can go back eons of years. But first, fittingly, do let us define pathos, as there was…

Gratitude; A Lengthy Definition From Wikipedia Including Empirical Studies Showing Benefit; Gratitude Central to the Islamic Faith; Gratitude a Topic in Forty-One Prior Blogs; Idiom Ahead of the Game Defined; A Instagram Tribute to a Dead Friend by Jean Paul Langlois; Estrangement Defined, Estrangement Can Make Death Easier; Photo of JPL and Alexis and His Painting

Gratitude is going to be the theme of today’s blog. You can read about it or not, it is totally up to you. That is what I want to write about, it gives my life…

News Just Out The Pandemic Changed Our Personalities; More Seriously It Starved Young Brains According to The Economist; Unintelligible Defined, Explained With Examples; It is Definitely Getting Cold Here Using Both Fahrenheit and Celsius; Danielle Smith Soon to be Alberta Premier; Some Justified Fears Concerning Her Aims and Abilities; Proof That Alexis McBride is Not Perfect

Yes, this is true! The pandemic changed our personalities and not for the good. That was not exactly a sunny way to begin the day but NPR .org brought news of a study conducted by…

Feeling Powerless in the Land of My Birth; The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth; Its Origins Explored and Explained. My Birthday is the Date of Next Alberta Election; You are Quite Welcome: Off on a New Phase of Life; Homelessness Shall Be Studied; Announcement Made on Instagram; Definition of Homelessness; Paradoxical Defined; Back to the Practice of Ikebana Flower Arranging; Being at the Right Place at the Right Time

Major decisions will be made in Alberta, probably already have by the time you read this. These decisions made by the Alberta Conservative party may affect my life but at this moment I am completely…