These were truths revealed in the New Yorker. They are truths because all prose in the New Yorker is fact checked. Wikipedia defines fact checking: “Fact-checking is the process of verifying information in non-fictional text…
In a way I am laughing as I lay in my bed in San Francisco in solitary confinement. I laughingly spoke to Personal Driver the other day.Me: I spend almost all of my time in…
Beleaguered is the perfect word – its synonyms are: besieged. under siege, blockaded, surrounded, encircled, beset, hemmed in, under attack. Somehow and for some reason I became a member of TeamJoe which, as has been…
The strange expression, Changes in; Latitude, Changes in Attitude came to mind quite suddenly. Well I have had changes in attitude, but not latitude, in the recent weeks. (Although at some point I may make…
I am laying in bed beginning to write my blog of the day when my phone rang and it was someone on Squad who said that he a member of the Royal Family of Kuwait….
Sent my blog and picture off to Chris, my Computer Guru and received the following response.He: Haha.. That would be nothing if not interesting. WE have escaped to France for the week, sitting here posting…
Faithful readers will know that I was a huge fan of Dubai – but no longer. I was duped which means deceived, trick, hoodwink, hoax, swindle, defraud, cheat, double-cross; gull, mislead, take in, fool, inveigle;…
I woke to a ringing phone but was unable to get to it in time to answer because the pain in my leg was intense. Got back in bed, fitfully sleeping. Remembered the phrase –…
Yesterday was two doctor appointments and it appears that I am falling apart at the seams and beginning to feel like a run down old car. By the way, falling apart at the seams means:…
Writing the blog is an obsession, which is a fixation ruling/consuming passion,, mania, idée fixe, compulsion, preoccupation, infatuation, addiction, fetish, craze, hobbyhorse; phobia, complex, neurosis; informal a bee in one’s bonnet, hang-up, thing. But it…