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Abu Dhabi Do!: The hardest two kilometers I've ever run
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An expatriate's tales from the other side of the world. Tuesday, February 28, 2012. The hardest two kilometers I've ever run. Halfway up the hill, I came to a complete stop. I turned and looked down at the cars on the road far below, then back at the crest of the hill looming high above. I couldn't take another step. This was a race? This segment – my third of the race – started on a slight incline. I took the baton and set off at a good pace, but i. I was barely moving. Then I just stopped. Hands on...
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Abu Dhabi Do!: Close your eyes, and it's 1968 all over again ...
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An expatriate's tales from the other side of the world. Monday, May 31, 2010. Close your eyes, and it's 1968 all over again . Tonight I feel like I'm a kid again, on a summer visit to my grandmother's trailer in the backwoods of Baker, Florida, listening to the Braves game on the radio and thinking this is the coolest thing ever. And when you close your eyes (the best way to listen to baseball on the radio), the rhythm and poetry of the game are the same, and it's easy to imagine the stadium's magical ex...
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Abu Dhabi Do!: October 2010
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An expatriate's tales from the other side of the world. Friday, October 29, 2010. Pakistan cricket and a bicycle built for three. Three of us were crammed into the back seat of a Toyota Yaris, grumbling good-naturedly about our discomfort as we navigated the confusing highways and dusty roads that lead to the cricket ground on the outskirts of town. Then we saw the bicycle. A middle-aged Pakistani man stood upright in the pedals, slowly weaving toward the bright lights of the stadium. Inside Sheik Zayed ...
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Abu Dhabi Do!: Inside the mosque, the bare truth
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An expatriate's tales from the other side of the world. Tuesday, September 6, 2011. Inside the mosque, the bare truth. Everything was fine until I looked at my feet. I was at the Grand Mosque for an iftar dinner with a Muslim friend, and after the meal, which signals the end of the daily fast during Ramadan, he invited me to join him in the mosque for the evening prayer. And suddenly I noticed all the brown, bare feet in the row in front of me . and to the left of me . and to the right of me ....I was...
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Abu Dhabi Do!: June 2010
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An expatriate's tales from the other side of the world. Thursday, June 24, 2010. I always wanted to say that). Welcome to the World Cup in Abu Dhabi, where Americans are clearly second (or third) class citizens, well down the pecking order from the lordly British, Germans, Italians, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Brazilians, Ghanans, Algerians, Serbs, Australians . well, you get the picture. But soon we had the game and a bucket of Budweiser - ("I traveled 8,000 miles to drink Budweiser? As the U.S....
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Abu Dhabi Do!: A good day to stay indoors
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An expatriate's tales from the other side of the world. Wednesday, June 9, 2010. A good day to stay indoors. At this age, it's not often something happens to you that's never happened before. But today, for the first time in my life, a trip to the beach was wiped out by . a sandstorm. I've had beach trips canceled by rain and clouds and wind and work and hurricanes and tummy aches and a balky MGB that just wouldn't start, even though everything else - I mean,. So I detoured to the mall and walked around ...
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Abu Dhabi Do!: Blowin' hot and cold
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An expatriate's tales from the other side of the world. Friday, July 2, 2010. Blowin' hot and cold. I often marveled at tales from friends who lived in faraway places like Minnesota and Wisconsin about the brutal winters and their daily battles with snow and ice – places so cold that people would often go weeks without venturing outdoors for any length of. And from the comfort of my mild-mannered Florida or Georgia winter, I scoffed at the folly of living in such an extreme place. July 4, 2010 at 7:26 PM.
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Abu Dhabi Do!: September 2011
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An expatriate's tales from the other side of the world. Tuesday, September 6, 2011. Inside the mosque, the bare truth. Everything was fine until I looked at my feet. I was at the Grand Mosque for an iftar dinner with a Muslim friend, and after the meal, which signals the end of the daily fast during Ramadan, he invited me to join him in the mosque for the evening prayer. And suddenly I noticed all the brown, bare feet in the row in front of me . and to the left of me . and to the right of me ....I was...
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Abu Dhabi Do!: A bounty on Ceiling Cat?
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An expatriate's tales from the other side of the world. Wednesday, December 2, 2009. A bounty on Ceiling Cat? A handful of feral cats live on the grounds of Abu Dhabi Media Company, and some of them slip into the newsroom from time to time looking for food and attention. He is particularly despised by The Management, perhaps because, as legend has it, one night he used the floor under the editor's desk as a litter box. There was even talk of bringing in birds of prey (falconry is big around here) to ...
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Abu Dhabi Do!: Take my stuff ... please!
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An expatriate's tales from the other side of the world. Saturday, April 3, 2010. Take my stuff . please! I went to a party last night and came home with a cookbook, a DVD, a dictionary, a box of maps . and a new bed. It was a "Take My Stuff" party, a clever and necessary concept around here, where people come and go all the time and the cost of shipping your things back home, wherever that might be, is usually more than they're worth. Most of the big stuff is priced at a fraction of its original cost (al...
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