middle east Archives - Alexis McBride

May 12, 2024

No News is Good News Vs. All The News That is Fit to Print Vs. That’s News to Me; The Truth is Almost Impossible to Ascertain; Thomas Friedman Speaks of Saudi Arabia; Impartial Defined; The Importance of Investigative Journalism; You Do Find the Truth of This Blog Here You find the Truth; Off to Malaysia: Photos of Greetings and Colorful Attire

I am exhausted just from writing the title. Perhaps I can just stop with the title, and you can use your imagination for the rest. I would hate to be a faithful reader of this…

December 16, 2023

Christmas 2023; Christmas Music is Actually Motivational and Spiritual; Mundane Defined; The Plight of the Humane Christians During This Time Where the Baby Jesus Would Have Been Blown to Smithereens; Compassion and Pity Are Blessings and a Defense Against Anger and Pity; A Condensed Story of the Factual Birth of Jesus; Photographs of a Wordy Scholarly Pamphlet

I know that it is the Christmas season. Alter Ego: How do you know Alexis? You are living in Medina – to say the very least the people in that chosen city are not celebrating…

September 24, 2023

Saudis Know How to Do Things; An Absolutely Unbelievable Saudi National Day: Saudi Facts, Saudi Fun and Constitution Compared to Canadian and US Versions; In My Life; Boisterous and a Bedouin Tent Reel; Photos of Celebrants and a Camel and His Caretaker

I constantly am shaking my head in sheer wonderment. Me: Those Saudi’s know how to do things!! Alter Ego: What do you mean? Me: Absolutely everything they do. If is totally mind boggling! Entirely!!! Alter…

September 1, 2023

Going Back in Time via Past Blogs Reveal That I Got Fooled: Sham, Naive and Chagrin Defined; Up to No Good; Something is Rotten in the State of Denmark; Two Cartoons and a Reel from The Edge of the World in Saudi Arabia

I undertook a trip backward in time to try and understand the mysteries of the magazine, when it was found in the first place and then to understand how it was lost – the mysterious…

August 28, 2023

New Revised About Me; The Final Edition

The About Me section of this blog has been ‘revised’ several times. It is time to do it again, as again circumstances have changed. Not only the circumstances but the Who I Am Has Changed. I am…

August 27, 2023

Trepidation with Some Synonyms; Custom Defined; Positive Attributes of Saudi Arabia Delineated; Least Desirable to Second Most Desirable; However Heebie-Jeebies; The Quran Supplies Guidance; Photographs and Reels of Good Times With Good People

Occasionally I have a word of the day, sometimes it is a song of the day, sometimes it is an idiom of the day. It is my custom to look up the song, the idiom…

February 3, 2021

No Need to Develop Decorum; An Eligible Husband Found and Then Lost; Decorum and Impropriety Defined; A Surprise Call from a Valued Caller; A Joke About Revenge; Walking Away When Duped; The Attack of the Clothes Moths

These last three or four days have been filled with momentous events. Most of them quite horrible, they will be slowly explained. But, in the long run, everything has turned out Ok – I am…

January 28, 2021

Back to the Middle East, Ignored So Long; Peachy Keen for the Emir of Qatar; Conversation with Care Giver About the Nature of Love; Conversation with Old/New Guy; I Shall Return Says Alexis to Fans; Photograph Showing the Two Unicorns Illustrating Ambivalence and Two Life Styles

This blog was to feature the concept of evil in the Islamic faith, but changed my mind. Perhaps the next blog as it is partially written. Faithful readers will wonder what happened to my obsession…

August 12, 2020

Emerging From My Cocoon; Not Pleased With Biden’s Choice of a Running Mate but Feeling Sanguine About It All; Amazing Statistics Strike Again Complete With World Map; Sanguine and Cocoon Defined

For some strange reason I have the feeling that I am emerging from a cocoon, I guess to be a butterfly, as that is what usually happens So far I have not sprouted wings –…