Yes, I Like Camels!

Camel herd with (rare?) baby white camel

Someone recently asked me why I’ve included a photo of camels on my site. Simple answer, I am ‎fascinated by camels, and I always have been. ‎

As a young girl, I actually used to play with my Barbie and Ken dolls (I admit to having them), creating all kinds of adventures ‎for them as they traveled around distant places. I remember having a fairly elaborate script with them and some camels and Arabians traversing ‎the Western Sahara and even the Arabian Peninsula. These adventures must have been “created” after I ‎watched the film Lawrence of Arabia.‎

Looking back it’s really strange that I did that and now here I am in lands famous for their camels. Fortunately I like to take pictures of them!

Daylight Savings Time - No Prob!

One advantage to living in Arabia that comes to mind today – changing my clock isn’t necessary for the end of daylight savings. There is no daylight savings! This is awesome!

It's International Women's Day!

This morning I saw groups of women come to a café and shake hands with other groups of women who were already seated before them. What a nice greeting for international women’s day!


Congratulations to all women – mothers, grandmothers, sisters, aunts, and friends!

Person of the Year?

I mentioned Yemen in a recent post and a friend of mine shared with me an article from the Yemeni English daily, Yemen Observer. I have to share a snapshot of this article, "Person of the Year." I think it is a good thing I scanned a copy because it wasn’t posted on the Internet pages of the paper.

Enjoy!

"Titanic" and Old and New

Looking back at the Hollywood figures I’ve mentioned, I remembered something Tweet recently said to me. Tweet believes that the "Titanic" soundtrack will never disappear, especially now that its director has made another hit, "Avatar." I think Tweet is right. I just heard it again at a restaurant.


BIA to waiter: “Please this movie is over ten years old. Surely there is another song you can play!”


Waiter: “Yes, ma’am but this very beautiful.”


Why do old songs never seem to disappear here, but old buildings do?