A Milestone . . .

Sometime in the middle of the night local time Pilgrim’s pageviews went over 20,000 total hits.  Due to the limited information about those hits this is a fairly meaningless statistic.  However, for me it’s incredible that what started out as a little experimental foray into the blogosphere has turned into 2-years and 20,000 hits.  Many [...]

Hitting a Wall

There’s been a lot of newsworthy things to comment on from the Middle East lately.

President Obama’s visit to Saudi Arabia and Egypt, including a historic speech in Cairo that was met with mixed reviews. (But better received in this part of the world than most speeches by US presidents of late.)  In it he called [...]

Two more ways people in Jordan can help

MommaBean has posted two more ways people here in Jordan can provide help and show their support for those suffering in Gaza.
Medical relief packs can be bought at Pharmacy One here in Jordan.  There are many Pharmacy One locations in Amman.  I know of one on Rainbow street just down a ways from 1st circle.  [...]

Skype: the Power to Prank 1/2-way Around the World

There’s only 1-hour left on Thursday, Nov 27th here in Jordan, but Thanksgiving is still going strong back home in the States.  (And it will be going strong here tomorrow as we decided to celebrate a day late due to today being a school day for us here in Jordan).  I took a few minutes [...]