I woke with a blessed dilemma that shall soon be envied by all of my Muslim readers. When you are in Mecca itself which way to face when saying Fajr prayers, Asr prayers, Magrib prayers…
All of this is too difficult to explain. I shan’t try but last evening was the Night of the Three Reservations. The first – my hotel room in the Riyadh Hilton, the second a mobile…
It is now 3:43 in the morning. I had the most incredible day of my life yesterday – it wore me out totally. I went to bed at about nine (2100 hours) and immediately fell…
Yesterday had to be one of the worst days of my life and also one of my best. In my typical modus operandi I shall talk about the good things that happened first. This is…
This conversation conveys my feelings on so many matters, It is an exchange between a cousin who has a new nickname: C.U.C. It stands for Canadian Uncrazy Cousin. That is because we both refer to…
Okay, okay, okay. “My Tabuk Morning Dawns in Majesty” is a bit overdramatic but, pardon me, that is exactly how it feels. I awoke incredibly early early, edited and afterwards fired off a blog to…
I prefer the Likes I receive for the Instagram responses I made to the messages of others. They have greater meaning that the Likes I receive for my personal posts and messages. Some truths deserve…
Yesterday morning, as is my want, I scrolled through my Instagram Likes learning to my delight that one my responsea had been pinned to an important message. I had written in response to a reel…
My subscription and attention to home via AB Today continues. It brought the most incredible news. Oil Prices Drive Record Revenues. Oil prices drive record revenues. Alberta logged a record-high surplus last fiscal year, buoyed…
Very early yesterday morning, even before dawn, I gazed out upon the marvels of Riyadh. My thirteenth floor window provided a sight, markedly different from my usual Edmonton sixteenth floor vantage. Took a photo, climbed…