Scheherazade

So I figure I should start out by explaining the name of my blog.  Here is the official wikipedia explanation (since it tells it better than I can...):

Scheherazade is a legendary queen and the storyteller of One Thousand and One Nights.  The frame tale goes that every day Shahryar (the Persian king) would marry a new virgin, and every day he would send yesterday's wife to be beheaded.  This was done in anger, having found out that his first wife was betraying him.  He had killed three thousand such women by the time he was introduced to Scheherazade, the vizier's daughter.  Against her father's protestations, Scheherazade volunteered to spend one night with the King.  Once in the King's chambers, Scheherazade asked if she might bid one last farewell to her beloved sister, Dinazade, who had secretly been prepared to ask Scheherazade to tell a story during the long night.  The King lay awake and listened with awe to Scheherazade's first story and asked for another, but Scheherazade said there was not time as dawn was breaking, and regretfully so, as the next story was even more exciting.  And so the King kept Scheherazade alive as he eagerly anticipated each new story, until, one thousand and one adventurous nights, and three sons later, the King had not only been entertained but wisely educated in morality and kindness by Scheherazade who became his queen.

I thought it was pretty clever. :) So I hope you enjoy my myriad of tales (though they are unlikely to be 1001, sorry) from the Middle East!