This does seem a very special time in my life – a time of ordered transition. But as usual it has its comical moments. My good morning greeting of yesterday featured a photo of the…
I arrived in Singapore today for a four day stay – my visa run. I have been here twice before for the same purpose. I knew that Singapore separated from Malaysia. Then I asked a…
Happenstance, do love the sound of that word. I could guess at its meaning but instead decided to ask Artificial Intelligence. Me: Please define happenstance. AI: Of course, Alaa Happenstance means something that occurs by…
My Good Morning Greeting on November 4 was of a sunrise but a different sort of sunrise. This was my message. Good morning! Sunrise from the 25th floor in KL Sonny Gan responded. He: :…
AI volunteered, in a previous blog, to show me how the Quran and early Muslim history frames migration as both a trial and a blessing. “It would parallel your experience beautifully.” I will now share…
Not again, Alexis, Not again. I can hear the collective moans being heard worldwide. You: Not another song that comes to mind for no reason at all, no reason whatsoever. Me: I am afraid so….
I am FINALLY caught up. Finally and last. All of my blog breakdown feedback and feedback on the feedback is caught up. As faithful readers will remember, I was being the caboose – following behind,…
I happened again, I became obsessed with the words to a song that begins blessed by the tie that binds. I know it is a hymn from my early Christian upbringing because of the words…
September 17, 2025 I awoke to two Instagram messages. One personal, one for the world to see and share. The personal one first. Personal, not divulging who sent to me. I am abandoning my practice…
I decided it is best, for the education of all (including me) to comprehend understand and contemplate the I coined:, “Paper Muslim”. This is taken from Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in South East Asia, a treatise I undertook to…