Life is rather unpredictable to say the very least. Yesterday a trip to the grocery store brought many delights. It seemed like home – bagel, cream cheese and smoked salmon in my room. I joked…
Yesterday morning awoke, opened Instagram had received news that the Yemeni folks were at it again – sent another drone, but not only was it intercepted but the UAE blew up the launching pad from…
Woke to good news yesterday morning from The National which is now my go to place for news ot the world. It is published in Abu Dhabi, an English on line newsletter. NATO is saying…
I am becoming more mindful of my readership these days, since becoming aware that they are increasingly from the Middle East and less from the USA. I am also becoming decidedly disinterested in American politics…
Well, Russia is very much on everyone’s mind at this moment, of course.Western minds anyway – the West concerned with Putin upon the Ukraine while we in the Middle East are concerned with Yemini drones…
This from the January 25, 2022 Gulf News. “UAE is a scintillating mix of hyper-modernity and deep-rooted tradition. The country has positioned itself behind an aim to make the Middle East a better place to…
This morning I am practicing incredible, amazing restraint. Breakfasting at Costa, conveniently located in my hotel. Instead of donuts, instead of croissants, instead of muffins (and the list goes on) – I am having porridge….
Woke up in a funk but have managed to get myself out of that selfish place. Now I am at breakfast – prepared by the staff at the Nuevo Restaurant at the Premier Inn. I…
An tremendously enlightening article in the New Yorker about the spread of the virus begins in this manner. “There’s an urban legend about a Texas man who takes a rifle to the side of his…
It is decidedly early in the morning, 5:51 to be exact. I am pursuing Instagram and also looking at emails. Waiting in my inbox was an Any Borowitz satire straight from The New Yorker to…