Screw politics today! Besides the Super Bowl beginning (kick-off) in another three hours, it was Tiger Woods in an amazing finish (again) in Dubai!!

There is probably no more beautiful city in the world than Dubai--the city from which I came to return to America after what seemed like a century in the Middle East.

This time Tiger came from four strokes behind to beat Ernie Els (again and again and again!) and keep his current streak of tournament wins (four now) alive.

The hotel below was under construction across the water from where a group of us had breakfast every Friday (like your Sunday in America). We ate at the Jumeira Beach Hotel (same large resort complex as the picture below, but a separate--equally beautiful--building on the mainland which was (at that time) called the "Chicago Hotel" (long story) by those of us who were, of course, "furriners" to the UAE. I looked at both buildings long and hard before heading to the airport the next day ... knowing I would likely never live in, work in or even visit Dubai--or the American University in Dubai (AUD)--ever again. Damn being in my seventies!

Thanks, Tiger Woods, for reminding me of that period of my life and the life of some of the kitties who returned to America with me.

The Burj Al Arab is located over the water from its "partner" hotel, the Jumeirah Beach Hotel, to which it's connected by a walking bridge/tunnel in the Jumeira Beach area (quite close to my former apartment building's location) in Dubai