Receiving an Unexpected Honor; Honor Defined; Music to My Ears Researched; Life in Abu Dhabi Totally Charmed; Two More Marriage Proposals; Children May Perhaps Be an Option Even at My Age; MADD a New Enabler, Most Blessed, Helpful and a Muslim; No Identity But a Wonderful Time at Immigration Offices. Photos of Me, Little Boy and Accidental Shot

I received an unexpected honor this morning. I did of course google the concept of honor and this was found on Wikipedia. “Honour (British English) or honor (American English; see spelling differences) is the idea…

Reporting a Miracle on Christmas Eve; Miracle Defined: It is High Time to Be Funny Again; Advice From Grandson; David Sedaris Brings Joy with Yelp Reviews of Christmas; Neff’s Highly Intelligent Thoughts on the Celebration of Christmas in the UAE: Photographs of Gingerbread Man Being Consumed

Today is officially Christmas Eve, but by the time you will be reading this – it won’t be, it will be over and done with for you my gentle readers. Christmas 2020 will be history….

It Could Only Happen to Me; Seventeen-Fifty Not Five-Fifty; Perfect Preparation Yields Chaos and Disappointment;No Qatar Airlines Presence at This Airport; If It Ain’t Broke Don’t Fix It Defined and Illustrated; Photographs of Pakistani Porter, Empty Crib, Breakfast and Me in Strange Head-covering; I’ll Be Home for Christmas at the Grand Mosque

If you follow my blog you are thinking: Where Is She Now?You: So you are in Doha, Qatar at the moment.Me: No, actually I am not. Everything went wrong. Despite all of my thorough planning.You:…

Thoughts Upon The Trauma of Leaving One’s Country; The Exploitation of Some Workers in the UAE; Possible Solutions by Other Middle Eastern Nations: I a Resident in Never-Never Land, The Idiom Defined; Consolation Defined and Illustrated; The Woes of Immigration; Excerpts From How My Mother and I Became Chinese Propaganda; Plight Defined; Funny Story from Breakfast

It is early morning – sunrise, prayer time in in thirty minutes, the sky is beginning to brighten. My morning routine has been disturbed as my coffee maker has the day off – his first…

Boring News, Yet Again, About the Covid-19 Virus; ; I Shall Overcome; Solutions to the Dilemma Mentioned in the December.14, 20121 Blog; Abu Dhabi Most Popular For Several Reasons; When in Rome Do As the Romans Do; Qatar Here I Come; Photograph of the Butler, Fruit, a Painting and My Toes

Well, it seemed the horrors of Covid-19 have not altogether disappeared. This is from The National, a UAE online newspaper which is most informative. It is bringing news about what to expect in 2022 by…

Now is The Time for Unmitigated Funny; Andy Borowitz Presents Elevator Jokes; Execrable Defined, Its Usage Contemplated; Hannity Urges Trump to Look at Big Picture; A Most Surprising Menu Item; Left to Right Ring Switch Adds Humor; Impediment Defined; Back to the Drawing Board Defined; Andy Declares That a Man Can Text; Supporting Photographs

Do realize that I have become somewhat serious, and therefore, boring of late. It is because of a tendency to over think everything, It is a dreadful trait as most things subject to my overthinking…

Being Away: The State of the USA Economy as Reported by The New York Times; Away Defined; Loneliness When Surrounded by Others; Misfortune Defined; Yesterday Bad; Today Good; Efficiency of UAE Government Offices Seems a Hype; Being Let Down By Someone Precious: Mainstay Defined: Two Photographs Both Illustrating Happiness

It is fascinating to be away – which is where I am – away. To be away and read about things American. The USA was my home for most of my life, went to live…

Andy Takes on Trump Again; Andy And Humor Of Course Triumphs; More About the UAE; The Bail Out of Dubai by Abu Dhabi; The True Story of Covid-19 in Dubai; Geography Lesson; Criticism of UAE by Wikipedia But How Free is Free Press in the USA? Picture of Feet on the Beach

The title: Trump Banned From His Own Social Network: “In a major setback for the former President, Donald J. Trump has been banned from his own social network.Trump’s permanent ban went into effect just moments…