Sorry guys, I have a LOT of stuff going on right now! No ‘news’ as of yet, but I do know that I’m being stretched to the limit in terms of my writing–finished that Hajj novel, working on revisions of that next novel, trying to get a nomination essay completed (it was due yesterday) and […]

I took a vacation! A real vacation! No work, no laptop, I didn’t even take my watch! Didn’t want to have to take a look at it–which meant I ended up asking hubby and son every few minutes, “What time is it?” In hind sight, I would have taken my watch, but still…point is I […]

Yesterday (technically–since I’m writing this past midnight) my seventh grandchild was born. I found out his name when his father called me at 4:15 pm. It’s Sulayman (not sure if I’m spelling that right). So now my three grandsons are named: Eesa, Ibraheem and Sulayman. Translation: Jesus, Abraham and Solomon. Very prophetic! Can’t wait to […]

But non-fiction is a LOT harder than I thought it was! Here my hubby goes cranking out a book a month, and not only are they coherent, you can actually finish reading them without your mind wandering or your eyes going crossed. I’m six pages into my book on getting the bully off your back and I […]

So I mailed off the Hajj novel this afternoon and I did so without rereading it for the umpteenth time. Not sure if that was a mistake or a stroke of genius. Only time will tell. Now comes the hard part…waiting. And the only thing that helps with the waiting is working. It’s really pathetic […]

Been sick, sick, sick, and that makes me think, think, think. Way back when Bush was president, I used to wonder how such a silly person (who calls one of their friends Turd Blossom???) could end up running the most powerful country in the world, and I really think a lot of his success came […]

I’ve spent the last few days deciding exactly what I got from the experience of going to see the play War Horse. And I’ve come to the conclusion that I got many many things! It was a bit of a stone henge moment–where I got more from the experience of going there than actually seeing the […]

I was going to write about my experience at the War Horse play, but somehow this other topic keeps begging to be dealt with first, so I’m going to go with it. I’ve been thinking about it since I saw it on Dr. Phil late last week, can’t remember if it was Thursday or Friday. […]

Watching Marie Antoinette 0nly because you know so little about French history is like watching Heath Ledger’s A Knight’s Tale to learn about medieval history. ***SPOILER ALERT*** The only difference is that A Knight’s Tale has a plot and is SO much better–even if it too is rather silly. So why am I dwelling on a […]

Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. The beauty of western governments is that they’ve known this for a long time. Countries like America and Canada reacted to this idea because they had to live under monarchies and they saw first hand the corruption of such systems.  As a result, what they tried to do […]