Well I have lost my uncontrollable urge to blog. In days of old my day was incomplete until the blog was written and sent off to Chris, my computer guru who lives in the UK….
This quote, so profound and meaningful was posted on Instagram. “Each time a woman stands up for herself without knowing it, possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women. Maya Angelo.” I shall…
Well in my life anyway. Something happens and everything changes. Peripheral decisions are made, almost for you, no effort required even if they were so worrying. A transformation occurs, never to be believed. I shall…
I awoke early this morning and opened a story line on Instagram posted by a young extremely privileged young woman. She wrote “Keep Palestine in your thoughts.” Or something like that. I responded – can…
I do admit to procrastinating, put this treatise on the back burner – but the moment of truth – well my truth (and Allah’s truth) has arrived, A slight delay while I define procrastinate. The…
Al Jazeera has become my ‘bible’, supplanting The New Yorker. Supplant means supersede and replace. Synonyms are replace, displace, supersede, take the place of, take over from, substitute for, undermine, override. Al Jazeera has taken…
I would not say that I am obsess with the sex life of King Saud in 1943 but have been doing some thinking. Totally convinced that he would not be a good lover. He would…
Jokingly say to people that I am going to loose all of my readers unless I lighten up. Believe, me, no idea why so many people read me but convinced that my humor is the…
The New Yorker appeared to break its silence about the Middle East – one would think that the Middle East with all of its complexities did not exist because it is almost never mentioned, or…
This is going to be an extremely serious blog but it is not going to start out that way. In life there must be a mixture, variety in order to make life interesting and bearable,…