Alexis McBride

September 21, 2020

Relinquishing My Status as Middle East Expert: An Extremely Bad Day But Restoration Using a Hot Water Bottle and Pet Bunny; Definition of My New Name With Possible Change of Last Name; An Unlikely Fourth Marriage; A Treasure Found, a Photograph of Ishi, My Beloved Cat; StewIn Your Own Juice, Wake Up And Smell the Coffee Defined

The world will be grateful to know that I am relinquishing my status as being a Middle East expert and leaving them to stew in their own juices (so to speak). Two meanings of that…

September 20, 2020

The Probable End of Emeritus Air; Foolhardy Statements by Outgoing President of Airlines; Perhaps Goodbye Dubai; Foolhardy Defined; The Emir of Qatar Addresses the United Nations in September of 2019; Truly Amazing Country Statistics

. This recent announcement emerged”“Emirates‘ outgoing President Tim Clark on Monday said it could take the state carrier up to four years to resume flying to its entire network that has been decimated by the…

September 18, 2020

Den of Inequity and Family Hotel Combined; Inequity Defined; The Secret Holder; Photograph taken from Window of Hotel; Uncanny Defined

People tell me their secrets – it is uncanny. I am not sure of the reason, and not sure that has been explored in my meetings with Wise Man. He did observe that everyone does…

September 16, 2020

A Dangerous Liaison,; One Not Involving Alexis (aka Ayla); Al Jazeera Takes a Stand Showing the Utter Duplicity of the UAE, Israel and the USA; The New Yorker Strikes Again in the Humour Department; A Possible Job Application to Al Jazeera; Rash Defied: A Massage From Heaven

Believe this or not, the dangerous liaison is not one that involves Alexis McBride (aka Ayla). The article is entitled the UAE and Israel: A Dangerous Liaison. The liaison is one between the UAE and…

September 14, 2020

An Ordinary But Not So Ordinary Day; The New Yorker Discusses Our Skies and Makes Observations Concerning Apocalyptic August in California; A Million Gold Stars for Good Behaviour; Watching Borgen; Peace Talks in Qatar; Me with Face Mask and Stylish Hair; Veracity Defined

Yesterday was in many ways an ordinary day. It was off to Marin, a visit to my magnificent hair stylist Kim, then lunch at the Cheesecake Factory (outside of course), then to Nordstrom’s to buy…

September 12, 2020

Changes In Attitude, Changes in Latitude; A Revised About Me

Faithful readers will have read the About Me section of this blog. But many changes have taken place since it was originally written. Therefore, an update has been written and will serve as the blog…

September 11, 2020

The Strangest Thing Just Happened; Ashes Instead of Rain; Definition of Sass Part One From the Past; A Potential New Name for Alexis; Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely; the Top Place to Catch the Virus is at Home according to Healthgrades; Definition of Occurrence

The strangest thing just happened. Well other than the fact that it is raining ash from the fires. I had left my window open and the sash is covered with a fine coat of ash….

September 10, 2020

Oops I Forgot to Incorporate the Link to the Saudi Arabia Material; Proof that I am a Driven Woman

This will be a very short blog. I read blog of yesterday and discovered that I did not incorporate the link to the Saudi Arabia material – well, nobody is perfect. So here they are:…

September 10, 2020

Statistics Can Be Misleading; But This is an Attack on the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia That is Well Deserved and Documented Despite The Fact That It is None of My Business; Skies No Longer Orange, so Phew; Photograph If I am not Lazy; My Goodness What a Day!

So for some strange and unusual reason I went back to my Amazing Statistics which can be read by typing those words into the search engine of this blog. The verifiable scientific report reveals that…

September 9, 2020

Oh My Goodness More Apocalypse with Ominous Skies; Trick Up Your Sleeve Defined; A Strange Occurrence In a Marin County Restaurant; A Quote from the Quran on Wisdom; Reports from Al Jazeera Concerning Pakistan and Ending the Illegal Blockade of Qatar.

I awoke to strange dark skies – the immediate thought was that I woke up at night thinking it was morning – that has happened before, both in Vancouver and here. Self isolation does do…