Stilettos in the Sand…...

There have been quite a few stories recently published in both of our local daily news papers , regarding The Commission for the Promotion o...

Smart money says that HB15 [House Boy No. 15] and G6 [Gardener No. 6] will be done next week. I just don't have the patience for sloppi...

In some ways, I find this situation rather amusing. Amusing in the way that says, "Never in my entire life have I ever seen companies ...

We have a couple of grocery stores on our little compound and this makes us women quite lucky in that since we CAN drive inside the perimete...

I need some shorts. Shopping, here, is out of the question. I just can't do it. You won't find a pair of shorts here; you can...

We've been here five years. During that period, officials here have been working to effectuate a solution to Saudization . I've bl...

Damn. Just send me a worker who 1) speaks English, and 2) will do what I need to have done, when I want it done, and how I want it done. ...

Interesting little tidbit from our local paper - which we refer to as "The Green Truth," due to the fact that the front and back p...

I know of an incident that took place here in the Eastern Province where a woman from our compound got into a taxi cab in the middle of the ...

How young is too young to be married? How 'bout ten and eleven years old ? Or perhaps much, much younger, like EIGHT YEARS OLD!?! Th...

Nothing here is EVER easy. Ever! Thus, absolutely NO REASON WHATSOEVER that today would be an exception to getting something done in an e...

Yeah, okay, so maybe it's not pouring and the Old Man isn't snoring, but it IS raining! Raining! Here in The Sandbox in April! Ab...

Well that certainly was interesting. How I did it, I will never quite know - one way or another - how I managed to get my blog to come up i...

I had to leave the compound yesterday afternoon to go do some shopping. If I’ve not said it before, let me say it now: I hate shopping in ...

[Note: I wrote this on Friday, 8 February 2008.] I am so angry I could spit nails. No. Wait. I am spitting. I’m muttering and I’m cursi...