social Archives - Alexis McBride

March 30, 2025

2025: A New and Different Ed-al-Fir; Cultural Night Inspiring and Joyful; Dress For Success, Power Dressing, Then Power Napping; Overcoming My Resistance to Napping; The Joy of Discovering the Prophet Muhammed was a Power Napper; Learning About the Originators of Anything Worth Doing is Worth Over Doing. Photos and Reels of Cultural Night

March 31, 2023. I awoke to this news from the Hindustan Times: Eid 2025 moon sighting: Malaysia officially proclaims the date for Eid-ul-Fitr 2025, says the crescent moon will be visible to the naked eye…

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…

January 24, 2021

Changing One’s Status From Majority to Minority; I Have Overcome; The Glorious Gloria Answers Important Questions; Cogent Defined; Declaration of Feminism; Flower Arrangement Pictured and Disguised; Do Listen to Yusuf Estes

This from yesterday’s blog. “There is so much discussion since the inauguration about the accomplishments of minorities. But I am not a minority for several reasons, none of them my fault. Read about my majority…

January 22, 2021

Beginning Again With Andy: Oh What a Beautiful Morning With An Inspiring Article From the New Yorker; Read It if You Dare: A Premiere of a Blog to Come; Incisive Defined; Photo of a Head-Saving Screen

During this hibernation period I sleep like a bear. Hours and hours and hours. It works wonders for the immune system, hence one of the best things a person can do for themselves. Type immune…

January 21, 2021

Here is the Inauguration and I am Watching; Extremely Positive Reaction to President Biden’s Speech; Three Confessions; Spot On, Its Origins; Amanda Gorman, the Highlight; Assuming the Rule of Women’s Clothes, Shoe and Hair Do Police; Me in Face Mask

First, two confessions. This is the first inauguration I have ever watched, at all. Never been invited to one, I once knew someone who was invited and went but to an inauguration..whose? Donald Trump’s –…

January 17, 2021

Definitive and Modern Day Understanding of the Role of Women in the Islamic Faith; The Scholar, Activist and Author Amina Wadud Praised; Zahir Naik Also Mentioned and Praised; My Own Strange Ties to Malaysia; Brand New Car Picturing My Scottish Attire

Many of you may know that I first became drawn to the Islamic faith upon learning of its treatment and respect of women. The treatment was in marked contrast with the treatment accorded to two…