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It’s Never What You Think, Or What They Say.

or… The one where the neighbors get their first impression. Which is also the one where we get our first washing machine (ever) and the one where I try out my oven for the first time. It goes like this. I stayed home tonight while the boys went out. I was thinking I’d get a [...]

the frydaddy

the frydaddy

You may know I’ve recently been meeting with a local girl each week for tutoring. I help her with her English homework (and her English in general), and she helps me with my Arabic, assuming I brought some along for the doing. In the typically generous Arab fashion, I usually leave the house with some [...]

Fishermen story

Fishermen story

Some of our local friends offered to take us to a local seaside town called Sohar. It is about an hour or so and when we there we drove right up to the beach and this is what we saw. As we pulled up on the sand we saw a big crowd and trucks in [...]

This is the sitting room (or “Parlor” if you will) at the House of Black. Here you’ll find anything we might be found talking about in our own sitting room from the crazy happenings of everyday life to spiritual reflections.

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