This has turned into an ill fated trip – which means: doomed, blighted, condemned, damned, cursed, ill-starred, ill-omened, jinxed; unlucky, luckless, unfortunate, hapless, unhappy; literary star-crossed. What has made it doomed, cursed, jinxed, and unlucky…
Well this has to have been the strangest New Year’s Eve of my entire life. I suppose the only one that would rival this one was in 1994 when I was unfortunate enough to marry…
So my American friends were teasing me, asking if the Sultan would meet the plane upon my arrival in Dubai. The answer is NO, he did not but I do know what he was doing…
Well this is the third song for the Sultan and this one makes some sense, almost too much sense. The name of the song is Shut Up and Dance. Oh don’t you dare look back…
Now this is the second song for the Sultan and not to be understood, even by me. It blasted from loudspeakers at the Presidio YMCA – a place sorely missed for various reasons, mostly because…
First, the most meaningful and poignant. What is meaningful? Meaningful: This is the definition that has the most meaning for me: deep, serious, in earnest, significant, important. Here it us, my Sultan, it is a…
I am definitely getting behind in blogging because sleep became a necessity at some point. It is now noon on Boxing Day. And so much to report on but we will now go back in…
After much thought and many hours of video watching and poetry reading I have determined that the Crown Prince of Dubai is an enigma. What is that? A noun which means a person or thing…
Yesterday was a bit frantic and Personal Driver became very concerned about my anxiety but I got home, had a very long conversation with Jennifer, had a good sleep and woke up extremely calm and…
The bad, bordering on catastrophic news is that I have to have knee replacement surgery on the left knee immediately after recovering from the right knee replacement. It was off to the surgeon yesterday, ably…