My Canadian Prayer Rug Takes Center Stage: Center Stage Defined; Limelight Defined:  It Label Speaks of the Beauty it Hopes to Spread to the World; Prayer Rug Sales Will Support Women; A Reel Found on Instagram and Embed Herein Speaks of Forgiveness; Embed/Imbed Defined; Photos of the Prayer Rug in Place and  Its Label

My Canadian prayer rug, praised in the August 28, 2022 blog, shall again take center stage. To take center stage means to be in a main or very important position. Used in a sentence: The…

Waking Up to Rain in Hot Edmonton ; Ameliorate Defined and Illustrated; Underground Passages Leading to Beloved Library; Definitely Time for Some Humour, This From the Magazine Section of The New Yorker Jenny Allen “Come to My House”; Prime of My Life Defined; Photographs of Library Card and Book Retrieved from the Library

It is morning here in Edmonton in what is, at present, the perfect weather place. Soon it will not be, but now it is. Edmonton earned a heat alert as it warned temperatures will hit…

Focusing on the Important Things in Life: An Encounter with the Alberta Minister of Infrastructure; News of Scotland’s Possible Cessation from the United Kingdom; Magical Defined; The Search for An Ancestor’s Imprint on the Alberta Legislative Building; Visceral Defined; Photographs of the Annual Report of the Department of Public Works and Alexis as the Scottish Flag

There is entirely too much going on in this cruel world, most of it rather nasty and unpleasant. It becomes necessary to focus one’s energies. During Ramadan 2022 one of my Intentions was to retreat…

Rose Colored Glasses Defined and Removed; Many Albertans Are Passive and Take Their Liberties and Freedom;  For Granted; Covid Rampant and Interfering with My Existence; Mohammed Prescribes Tasty Medicine; Borowitz Satire Amuses; News of Alberta Health Care Crisis; Photograph Illustrating Health Care Crisis with Instagram Caption

I am beginning to look at my surroundings with more realism – removing the rose colored glasses that have clouded my vision. The freedoms, the civility, the plight of the average individual here in Edmonton…

My Goodness, Not Only is Infamy Alive and Well in Canada But It Even Exists in My Fair City At the Highest Levels of Government; A Prize Winning Essayist Manages to be Sexist; Racist and Hatefilled at a Very Young Age: Politicians Scramble to Avoid Responsibility: Imfamy Defined; Dismay Defined; Idiom Foot in Mouth Explored; But Then the Relief Found in Humour

I am shocked and dismayed – there is no other way to put it. I am sitting at home in my apartment minding my own business. I was on line reading what was going on…