The other day I was sharing a bit of our challenging situation with a friend. Every time I do speak with a friend to update on our life or share our current story, they always comment on how calm I seem to be about everything. In fact, when they say it I realize it is…

My fascination with religions stems back to my foster family days – the one just before I was adopted by my family now. Although later I would learn that they were Seventh Day Adventist, at the time I just knew that I went to church and started out in the church school.  Some time later…

Being sick is one of my most hated things in the world. When I was younger I never admitted it; therefore, illnesses would have to knock me out completely before I would stop to address them.  As a kid, I would only get bed-ridden sick, so that would usually mean that my mom would have…

Nobody makes money blogging. Writers never earn enough to survive on. Just do what you need to and get by. You can dream, but also be realistic. Sound familiar? I had earlier determined that I need to probably really take some steps toward finding a regularly paying job. This may mean that I need to…

Having generally settled my schedule now into mid-morning starts and working until 7 or so at night, I have realized that I can now begin to consider doing some online work in the mornings. At the moment, I do my writing or cleaning up of the house, etc, but if I could find some work…

Sometimes I sit down to write my posts knowing that I have thought of a number of different topics to discuss – always thinking I should start a post draft when the idea comes to me, but wave it off saying I’ll remember it – and then I sit to start writing see nothing but…

This week was a break from the gym as I really felt like I needed to see how much the yoga does for me in the week. So, here’s my activity this week. Mar 5 (Sunday) Wellness yoga session Casual yoga practice  Mar 6 (Monday) Casual yoga practice Mar 7 (Tuesday) 5.9km Walk (1km run)…

Back when I first started my life as a ‘lady of leisure’ I joined up with the American Women’s Network. Now, I was a bit hesitant then as I had had a less than ideal interaction with them when I first arrived in the UAE over 8 years ago. However, I really enjoyed the vibe…

Happy International Women’s Day!  Although I do not generally rally behind “international days” of anything (I am sure I wrote a post about this way back…), today allowed me to get onto the embassy grounds of my husband’s homeland.  A few weeks ago I was contacted by someone in the embassy about doing some yoga…