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  • Blog,  Expat Life

    For Whom The Bell Tolls (or A Funny Thing Happened In Paris)

    September 30, 2013 /
    Town Bell, Paris, Ontario

    The plaque on the wall said it hadn’t been rung since July 1st 2002. Well that was about to change...

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    BPD – How Can You Help?

    April 10, 2013
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    A penguin love story with a twist

    November 6, 2011
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    AND THE WINNER IS…

    April 16, 2012
  • Blog,  Mental Health

    Life Lessons – Bringing Mental Health To Class

    September 25, 2013 /
    Small boy staring out over Lake Ontario

    You’d think having travelled out of the lonely wasteland of mental illness and learnt to manage my condition, I’d be great at nurturing awareness of emotional health in others. Dr Kutcher made me realize there was much more I could be doing for my children...

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    Do hunters have a place in today’s world?

    December 7, 2011
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    Chocolate heaven…

    January 6, 2012
    Streetlamp at sunset

    BPD – How Can You Help?

    April 10, 2013
  • Bridging Cultures,  Interracial marriage,  Islam

    What made you become a Muslim?

    September 18, 2013 /
    Solitary Journey

    There are times when the faith I connect with seems a different animal viewed through the eyes of others. I wonder if I still count as a Muslim when I disagree with so much it’s purported to represent...

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    Censorship – muslims caught in the middle

    March 31, 2012
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    Humor & Depression

    August 15, 2014
    Shafia trial

    Truth, Justice and the Canadian Way – on the end of the Shafia trial

    January 30, 2012
  • Expat Life,  Living in Canada

    Childhood Is A Foreign Country

    September 12, 2013 /

    At five I played ‘Ring-O-Ring-O-Roses’ and ‘What’s The Time Mr Wolf’. I went to birthday parties, passed the parcel, ate cubes of pineapple and cheese off cocktail sticks without ever wondering why, and danced unabashedly to ‘The Birdie Song'...

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

    April 19, 2013

    Should we get a cat?

    September 12, 2011
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    The soundtrack to life abroad

    July 8, 2012
  • Blog,  Expat Life,  Photography

    Wherever The Fancy Takes You

    September 4, 2013 /

    J & T returned to school today and already the summer seems like a memory. I wrote this piece last week - it feels a million miles away right now...

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    In my head, I’m normal

    February 7, 2013

    Autism and Friendship – Flying Into The Windowpane

    October 24, 2017

    Arrested Development

    August 1, 2011
  • Blog,  Expat Life,  Living in Canada,  Photography

    Back-To-School With A Snowbird Fly-Past

    September 2, 2013 /
    snowbirds-over-falls

    For the students of Captain Michael VandenBos Public School here in Whitby, the first day back after summer break holds an extra frisson of excitement...

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    Tale of same-sex penguin pair goes viral – the saga of Buddy and Pedro continues…

    November 9, 2011

    Should we get a cat?

    September 12, 2011
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    Mindfulness in Depression Relapse Prevention – Thoughts are not facts

    October 22, 2012

TOPICS

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      • Living in Canada
    • Interracial Marriage
    • Islam
  • MENTAL HEALTH
    • Aspergers
    • Bipolar
    • Mindfulness
  • PHOTOGRAPHY
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Top Posts & Pages

  • Childhood Is A Foreign Country
    Childhood Is A Foreign Country
  • How People With Autism Fake It
    How People With Autism Fake It
  • Meeting the In-Laws - bridging the cultural divide
    Meeting the In-Laws - bridging the cultural divide
  • Britain vs. Canada
    Britain vs. Canada
  • Marrying into a different culture – The clash of East and West
    Marrying into a different culture – The clash of East and West
  • AND THE WINNER IS...
    AND THE WINNER IS...
  • “D’ya like dags?”
    “D’ya like dags?”
  • Nude yoga: Now available in Toronto
    Nude yoga: Now available in Toronto

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