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  • Writing

    Beginning the Book

    January 31, 2013 /
    Victoria Street, Whitby, Ontario

    The idea of my writing a book has been floating around our house for a while now, slowly shedding it's aura of incredibility. That quip I made about my life reading like an Amazon bestseller took root and, with a Pinocchio-esque insistence, demands to become a real book...

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    Making My Choice – Mindfulness In Writing

    June 7, 2012
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    Why This Writer Needs Other Writers

    September 23, 2016
    Telephone box on Whitby street at night

    Online Abuse: Think you’re safe on a professional network?

    November 8, 2012
  • Blog,  Borderline Personality Disorder,  Expat Life,  Mental Health

    How BPD made me a better expat

    January 29, 2013 /
    Different Tree

    Not nearly enough is written about Borderline Personality Disorder, and often what little there is, however insightful, leaves you with a foreboding sense of the enormous obstacles preventing us from functioning on a similar level to those free of this frustrating and debilitating condition...

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    A-Z of Canada: A is for Awesome

    January 16, 2012
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    The soundtrack to life abroad

    July 8, 2012
    Calm, Lake Ontario

    Freedom & Fear – two sides of the same coin

    August 30, 2013
  • Blog,  Expat Life,  Living in Canada

    You know you’re settled in Canada when…

    January 24, 2013 /
    Canadian Tire money

    Signs you've been here awhile...

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    Pucks and Punch-Ups

    January 22, 2013
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    Unexpected Benefits

    February 1, 2013
    Islamic bookstore Toronto, controversial book, how to beat your wife

    Store sold out of controversial Muslim book | Toronto & GTA | News | Toronto Sun

    March 27, 2012
  • Blog,  Expat Life,  Living in Canada,  Photography

    Pucks and Punch-Ups

    January 22, 2013 /
    hockey night

    What a night! I couldn’t be classed as a sports fan by any stretch of the imagination, but as some of you know from yesterday’s post, Monday evening saw K and I brave the cold to take the GO train to Toronto for our first ever hockey game...

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    The Day The Stompin’ Stopped

    March 8, 2013
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    Love in a cold climate…

    February 8, 2013
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    The (Supermarket) Help

    August 27, 2013
  • Blog,  Expat Life,  Living in Canada

    The Good ‘Ole Hockey Game

    January 21, 2013 /
    Tickets to the LeafsvsSabres

    The Toronto Maple Leafs will be playing on home ice for the first time this season tonight, and thanks to a lucky break, K and I won Platinum tickets...

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    The magnetic pull of Lake Ontario

    June 13, 2012
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    Story Of A Miscarriage (Part 1)

    October 16, 2013
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    Our Expat Story in The Telegraph

    April 26, 2012
  • Blog,  Expat Life,  Photography

    “Life is like a box of chocolates…”

    January 17, 2013 /
    Insulation by Cadburys

    Today brought a return to more seasonal temperatures (with a windchill of seventeen below) and a long-awaited package...

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    Reading: Teleportation for the Soul.

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    Making My Choice – Mindfulness In Writing

    June 7, 2012
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    August 14, 2013
  • Blog,  Expat Life

    5 Ways to Wind A Canadian Up

    January 14, 2013 /
    Tim Hortons sign on bus shelter

    Canadians have a global reputation as peacekeepers and pacifists but, just like the rest of us mortals, their patience isn’t limitless; some things are guaranteed to get them fired up. Here are five situations where you’re unlikely to see them at their best…

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    The Day The Stompin’ Stopped

    March 8, 2013
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    Make Me A Muslim

    February 12, 2013
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    Accepting Disability – A Work In Progress

    January 28, 2015
  • Bridging Cultures,  Interracial marriage

    Challenges of interracial marriage

    January 7, 2013 /
    Family fun at the beach in winter, Lake Ontario

    Making an intercultural marriage work takes dedication and strength, but on the plus side, we have a super-strong family bond, a vast capacity for empathy and understanding and the confidence that comes from knowing you’ve forged your own path in the big wide world and you have the cojones to deal with whatever comes your way. No regrets, right?

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    Meeting the In-Laws – bridging the cultural divide

    March 23, 2012
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    Identity – More Than The Sum Of My Parts

    October 26, 2013
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    Traitor to my Culture

    June 10, 2013
  • Bridging Cultures,  Interracial marriage

    What price a woman’s heart?

    January 3, 2013 /
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    Ten years ago today, I stood corseted in sumptuous silk, satin and brocade and consented to be sold to the man I now call my husband for a "token sum" of thirty pounds...

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    The Bombshell

    January 12, 2012
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    How I Discovered The Real Ramadan

    July 30, 2013
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    Leaving Islam – the greatest jihad?

    October 20, 2014

TOPICS

  • BRIDGING CULTURES
    • Expat Life
      • Living in Canada
    • Interracial Marriage
    • Islam
  • MENTAL HEALTH
    • Aspergers
    • Bipolar
    • Mindfulness
  • PHOTOGRAPHY
  • WRITING

Top Posts & Pages

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    Bangles, Betrothal & ‘A Good Pakistani Girl’
  • O Canada, O What do I do?
    O Canada, O What do I do?
  • How People With Autism Fake It
    How People With Autism Fake It
  • Marrying into a different culture – The clash of East and West
    Marrying into a different culture – The clash of East and West
  • Desperation in the City of Dreaming Spires
    Desperation in the City of Dreaming Spires
  • Meeting the In-Laws - bridging the cultural divide
    Meeting the In-Laws - bridging the cultural divide
  • Ungrateful Bitch (Part 3)
    Ungrateful Bitch (Part 3)
  • How BPD made me a better expat
    How BPD made me a better expat

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