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    In My Other Life I’m A Cowboy

    April 30, 2013 /
    I always wanted to be a cowboy

    Ever since my imagination was captured by a children’s western running on Irish TV in the early eighties, I wanted to be a cowboy...

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    Nuns on the run

    My Mother Was A Nun

    March 7, 2013
    Black Dog Tribe logo

    Borderline Personality Disorder – getting a diagnosis

    December 13, 2012
    Closeup of a pile of vintage family photos

    Grandad’s Ghost, or, How To Fuck Up A Funeral

    December 17, 2015
  • Borderline Personality Disorder,  Mental Health,  Writing

    Don’t Let Self-Doubt Sabotage Success

    April 23, 2013 /
    Franz_Von_Stuck_-_Sisyphus

    A thought struck me as I waved K off to work one morning - looking all hotshot and capable in his well-cut suit - and I resolved to talk to him about it when he returned...

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    Broken Down Car

    BPD: Suspended Animation

    March 4, 2014
    Drawer handle

    Where Have You Been?

    May 29, 2014
    Mind-logo

    “Dear borderline me…”

    February 26, 2013
  • Blog,  Expat Life

    Breaking out of the Box – a review of “A Career In Your Suitcase”, 4th edition

    April 19, 2013 /
    A-Career-In-Your-Suitcase-cover

    “A Career In Your Suitcase” does what it says on the tin – equips you with the building blocks of a portable career.

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    Stewart Building, Toronto

    Toronto: Discovering the Discovery District

    March 19, 2012
    Different Tree

    How BPD made me a better expat

    January 29, 2013
    Skunk

    School Lockdown – blame it on the skunk

    September 29, 2011
  • Blog,  Expat Life

    Expat Limbo

    April 15, 2013 /
    Looking out across Lake Ontario

    Approaching the three-year mark of our Canadian posting this expat's reached an impasse...

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    Dairymilk chocolate bar partially unwrapped

    Chocolate heaven…

    January 6, 2012
    Yonge Street, downtown Toronto

    The Coldest February Since Eighteen-Something

    February 25, 2015
    Family at the beach, Ajax, Ontario

    The most precious things

    January 25, 2012
  • Blog,  Borderline Personality Disorder,  Mental Health

    BPD – How Can You Help?

    April 10, 2013 /
    Streetlamp at sunset

    Following my last post, where I wrote about my recent BPD episode, I thought I’d clarify how Borderline Personality Disorder makes itself felt, the difficulties sufferers face, and the ways in which those close to them can help.

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    The Good, The Bad & The Hungry

    July 20, 2012
    Decorative purple carnival mask

    How People With Autism Fake It

    September 30, 2015
    New Canadian twenty dollar bill

    Expatriating Your Pension

    March 18, 2013
  • Blog,  Borderline Personality Disorder,  Mental Health

    Battling BPD

    April 8, 2013 /
    Girl on a rock at the lakeshore

    It doesn’t matter how many times BPD engulfs my mind, I can never recognize it for what it is at the outset.

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    stompin-tom-connors

    The Day The Stompin’ Stopped

    March 8, 2013
    Houris_on_Camelback_-_15th_century_Persia

    The Myth Of The 72 Virgins

    March 25, 2013

    Has anyone seen the moon?

    August 31, 2011
  • Blog,  Expat Life

    Don’t be fooled this April 1st!

    April 1, 2013 /
    BBC-announcer, April 1st, TV prank

    April 1st brings the realisation that one thing I've really missed since leaving Britain for Canada is good quality, advert-free TV...

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    Tipping wait-staff

    To tip or not to tip… that is the question.

    October 27, 2011

    Point & Shoot: Weekend Snapshot

    November 25, 2013
    Woman in novelty sunglasses stares into the camera

    Accepting Disability – A Work In Progress

    January 28, 2015

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Top Posts & Pages

  • Meeting the In-Laws - bridging the cultural divide
    Meeting the In-Laws - bridging the cultural divide
  • Bangles, Betrothal & ‘A Good Pakistani Girl’
    Bangles, Betrothal & ‘A Good Pakistani Girl’
  • O Canada, O What do I do?
    O Canada, O What do I do?
  • How to stay unique in a world that demands conformity
    How to stay unique in a world that demands conformity
  • Nude yoga: Now available in Toronto
    Nude yoga: Now available in Toronto
  • Battling BPD
    Battling BPD
  • How People With Autism Fake It
    How People With Autism Fake It
  • A bitter pill to swallow
    A bitter pill to swallow

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