Zebra Train at Al Ain Zoo The Road to Al Ain is packed with adventure, and no trip to Al Ain is complete without a visit to the Al Ain...

Chicken Like Bird If it walks like a chicken and it talks like a chicken but it looks nothing remotely like a chicken and behaves more...

Gross Food that is DELECTABLE on The Road. The Road to Al Ain (or the E-22 for locals) is fortunately not a long one; fortunate only for...

Phases of the Moon My husband and I have this ongoing debate about the in the Middle Eastern Moon, specifically the crescent phase. It...

Cobra Oil?! In my daily photo search for all things new & different around Abu Dhabi, I stumbled upon some Snake Oil today. I kept...

Emirates Palace front view Just how do you segue from live goats at a Farmer’s Market to 24 Carat Gold flaked cappuccinos? I don’t know,...

Caution, people who cannot handle anything that seems even remotely like animal cruelty, please DO NOT read on! This “Chicken Dinner”...

Pre-Run I think if I had been on US soil, the Color run would not have seemed so very strange to me. It was, after all, just a...

Happy 15th Anniversary Happy Fifteenth Anniversary to my husband. As other marriages unravel or are “consciously uncoupling”–if you...

“Put down your ironing. It can wait” “Do not clean your house today. It’s too nice out.” “Laundry, schmaundry, look down at the beach.”...

“Honey, Can you stop for gas?” Nooooooooooooo! There is no scarier question posed to me in this country than “Honey, can you stop for...

Everywhere you go, you see the many hands of Fatima. The Hand of Fatima manifests itself in the form of jewelry, wall hangings, art and...

A reader—yes, I believe I have actual readers, people (at least one or two)—just wrote me and asked whatever happened with my “brush with...

This weekend, a Beach Bazaar event took place at our complex. There were vendors from all over the UAE selling everything from abayas to...

Happy 13th Birthday!! On the occasion of my daughter’s 13th birthday–my very first teenager I have had to contend with (with the...

Obviously, no pollution is good, but can pollution ever be pretty? In the case of light pollution, maybe? This is a photo of a water...

Never, have I ever encountered a place so perpetually “under construction” as Abu Dhabi. You could be in the heart of this truly...

I look for patterns everywhere in nature and art. I think I do this because I am unable to find and to stick to patterns in life; in...

The day started out stormy and sandy this morning. It looked something like the photo below my Daily Photo the better part of the day....

I have encountered some strange fruit in my life time, but nothing so strange and stinky as Durian. It’s smell conjures up many a night...