Stilettos in the Sand…...

I saw this last night at one of my favorite sites . Then I caught a quick blurb about it on Fox News. Today there are two articles in t...

Some voices from this side of the world... Letters which I should have pointed out, and didn't... From Arab News this past Sunday seve...

My Kids eat well. Probably much better than many, many people do. I have spent the past three days in the kitchen cooking a couple of mont...

A whole slew of car accidents! Carnage on the roads in the Sandbox continues and won't end until authorities get serious about issuing...

'Bout time for some concern. Gee. It only took 258 cases of sexual and physical abuse of Indonesian maids in the first six months of 2...

I'd say this is pretty brazen. Honestly, how much more warning can you give some people. Being caught with drugs, dealing drugs, doin...

This guy is so in trouble. I'm going to guess that his crime, impersonating a doctor, is not going to be taken lightly by authorities....

The two articles in each of the two English news papers , here, have a few more details on the murder which took place a week or so ago. Th...

Last Friday I posted this . In today's paper , an article reports that he died in the early hours yesterday after spending 11 days in ...

So says the newspaper headline; I didn't have to come up with my own. When is it going to stop? Why are authorities turning a blind ey...

My morning at the clinic, yesterday, was not nearly as bad as I had anticipated it would be. Ahhh. Relief, there. Unfortunately I didn...

This is just abysmal. There is no excuse. Nope. NO job in this country, which is so wealthy, should be allowed to pay wages THIS low. 2...

Who knows what these parents did to their little girl - it could not have been good. The punishment - lashes and jail time - should deter...

Finally, finally, finally tomorrow I get to go back to the clinic to see an orthopedist about my bad knee. Blogging will be light... My en...

Interesting, this . I scan through the job postings in our two newspapers occasionally, not because I am seeking employment, but because it...

I saw this in the paper a few days ago, the same day I did the post about the ten-year old girl who will be fifteen when her marriage is co...

Sixteen years, here, without going home once to see her seven children... Something most of us cannot even fathom. Rest in peace, Emelita ...

A follow-up article/report/story. Something that occurs rarely. Little more information is published, today , than what was previously rep...

Not really funny. But as I was reading this , all I could think of was that old commercial, "This is your brain on drugs" where t...

There is a really good letter in today's Arab News that I sincerely hope will be read by everyone, here, in The Sandbox. Only the writ...