Area 77

Why is it hard to be a better person?

My favorite character in Grey’s Anatomy is coming back to the show! Addison Montgomery not only has the coolest name in TV, but she is FIERCE and I love her. She left last season to star in a spin off show based on her super cool character but new episodes have not been ordered since [...]

Eight-Year-Old Wife Wins Divorce
A YEMENI court has granted a divorce to an eight-year-old girl whose unemployed father forced her into an arranged marriage.
“I am happy that I am divorced now. I will be able to go back to school,” Nojud Mohammed Ali said, after a public hearing in Sanaa’s court of first instance.
Her former [...]

If Americans Knew is a website I came across a couple of times by chance while reading other Middle Eastern blogs and just watching YouTube. The website is aimed at Americans obviously and hopes to present them with accurate information about the Palestine/Israel issue without any twisting and filtering of the media.
It’s a great website [...]

I was thinking about names the other day like many of us do occasionally. What am I going to name my kids? Maybe this or maybe that.. no, no, definitely that. I’m sure.
But I decided I shouldn’t decide! Names are important. It is a huge part of our identity that we cannot change: it is [...]

Almighty God created this Earth and the rest of the eight planets (Pluto is still a planet in my book). He created the Sun and our galaxy. The endless size of the whole universe is so vast that the human mind could not possiblly even come close to even imagining what other galaxies, stars and [...]

+ I’m back in the US of A.
+ WTF?! Pluto is not a planet? What is up with that?!
+ I saw a guy on the bus today that could soooo easily be Elijah Wood’s little brother. So, he doesn’t look exactly like him but he has all the features. Big eyes, long lashes, same mouth, [...]