Living in Egypt

Blogs that are writ­ten by an author liv­ing abroad in a for­eign land are of par­tic­u­lar inter­est to us. In the blog Liv­ing in Egypt our author Maryanne Stroud and her fam­ily have moved from Toronto to live on a farm in the Mid­dle East, “Life isn’t only made up of polit­i­cal prob­lems. Most of us spend more time con­cerned with our fam­i­lies, friends, and neigh­bours than with the lat­est actions of what­ever gov­ern­ment we may have inflicted upon us. Our daily lives are our commonality.”

The nom­i­nated post is from Novem­ber 7, 2007 and is titled A Small Mir­a­cle. It is about a birth on the farm by a horse named Shab­boura, “Foal­ing usu­ally isn’t a long drawn out process. For wild horses, it couldn’t be because the mare and foal are at extreme risk dur­ing birth. True to form, it was only about 30 min­utes from the first sign that she was hav­ing labour pains (puz­zled looks at her stom­ach and flanks along with some sweat­ing) to see­ing the nose and front feet of the foal start to emerge.” But the real prob­lem is that the foal’s mother is ill. To get the rest of this story, The Ris­ing Blog­ger rec­om­mends you read our Post of the Day!

Review writ­ten by BUD WEISER.