As usual, I attempt to be fair, to allow new information and to alter my views. So I did learn, in today’s research that the Crown Prince (not the ROD) made an enormous step to…
Personal Driver and Alexis McBride speak a great deal, sitting in stupid traffic in San Francisco and often speaking on the phone when we are not in transit (or sitting still in transit). His wisdom…
An exchange of emails with Former London Lover and Present Friend: Me: Remember when I first began the relationship with Joo Kim Tiah and you said watch out warning me about the mythical guy who…
I am a positive person as faithful readers will know. But to be positive in the face of what Trump is NOT doing would be absolutely idiotic. He tweeted something stupid about fake news, and…
I am here at the Mercury because I was stood up. What does that expression mean? “To fail to meet someone for a date, meeting, or appointment, especially without telling them. In this usage, a…
A great article in the New Yorker spoke of Panic Shopping and is so funny but also so pathetic! Helen Rosner begins her article speaking of the glories of Costco, then she goes onto say:…
Faithful readers will know of my obsession with Dubai, first occasioned by my meeting a man with a name tag that said Sultan who turned out to be the Crown Prince of Dubai. Honest!! So…
The New Yorker brought encouraging news concerning Eliizabeth Warren, extremely good news. The article written by Benjamin Wallace-Wells presented a far different approach than the one taken in the Atlantic, extensively covered in the blog…
Even more dismal news was received in the past few days – the Atlantic announced that Elizabeth Warren is removing herself from the Presidential race. She is the only worthwhile candidate in my eyes and…
An Indian student in Dubai has been found infected with the virus, the family has been quaarintenetd in a hospital, school has been suspended and the special measures taken to disinfect the building. In the…