Believe it or not I am not the only Alexis in this world. There is Alexis the Bunny and Alexis who now lives in the Philipines and hundreds, if not thousands, of others as it…
I do admit that I have been ‘picking on’ the UAE recently, sometimes almost comparing it to an Evil Empire. But there is good existing within its borders, good and evil is often intertwined everywhere…
This is most unusual but it seemed that finding a fantastic dental office here in Edmonton meant that everything was complete, everything put and placed together. Out of all the things I could ever want…
Seasons are a novelty to me. Not brand new, but unusual because, although I lived with seasons until 1967, now their fifty-five year absence have made them a them a distant memory. I returned to…
These are, for many reasons, troubled times both here in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and throughout the world. It is rather easy to focus, and occasionally identify and become overwhelmed with, the mess in which we…
Today is a big day – it is the second anniversary of my reversion to the Islamic faith. For various reasons it is an IN day, spent totally alone and, blessedly at peace. There is…
I attempted to find a word to describe my current state of mind. The closest I could come up with is regroup. Found by googling that it can individual context: to stop for a short…
This is a continuation of my October 6, 2022 blog which began a discussion of Edmonton’s huge problem – that of homelessness. A definition of homelessness began there and will be continued. This definition of…
This October 12, 2022 morn I awoke to a text message that made my heart sing. It was so amazingly gratifying. I suppose we should, at this point, define gratify. Its ‘nice’ definition is give…
Well, this has been the best Thanksgiving of memory. Memory has been buttressed by the blog so we can go back eons of years. But first, fittingly, do let us define pathos, as there was…