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    Winter Is Coming

    November 27, 2013 /

    The air is still, there's no breeze. Expectation hangs dumbly like a first-grader trying to cut in at the school disco. Everything waits...

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    Making My Choice – Mindfulness In Writing

    June 7, 2012
    understanding self-harm

    How I managed to stop self-injuring and get on with my life

    March 1, 2012
    earth-day-2012-logo

    How eco-friendly is Canada?

    April 22, 2012
  • Expat Life

    Winter Warmer – Homemade Shepherd’s Pie

    November 27, 2013 /
    Homemade Shepherd's Pie

    Here's how to make your own Shepherd's Pie. None of the quantities is sensitive, if you want to throw in chopped carrot and celery - go ahead. If you love mash, make extra. Play around with the recipe and make it your own...

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    A fluid identity

    Identity – More Than The Sum Of My Parts

    October 26, 2013
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    Breaking out of the Box – a review of “A Career In Your Suitcase”, 4th edition

    April 19, 2013

    Getting down and dirty with the wildlife…

    November 2, 2011
  • Blog,  Photography

    Point & Shoot: Weekend Snapshot

    November 25, 2013 /

    There are two non-negotiable components to our weekend: Food and Nature...

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    Sex up your weekend with American-style pancakes

    November 26, 2011
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    “Dear borderline me…”

    February 26, 2013
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    Vanishing Point – Losing my mind to anorexia

    December 12, 2012
  • Blog,  Borderline Personality Disorder,  Mental Health,  Photography

    Shoot & Quote: Intangible Water

    November 20, 2013 /
    Waves on a shore: Be Water text

    I've spent a long time looking for answers and it seems all I needed to know was there in the intangible element I'm naturally drawn to...

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    Reading: Teleportation for the Soul.

    March 3, 2018
    Tim Hortons sign on bus shelter

    5 Ways to Wind A Canadian Up

    January 14, 2013
    Window on our world

    View from the gazebo

    April 11, 2012
  • Blog,  Borderline Personality Disorder,  Mental Health,  Photography

    Black Flowers Blossom – Surfing the BPD breakers

    November 18, 2013 /

    Sunday was a bad day. Black flowers blossomed in the hothouse of my mind, staining my brain with their blooms like cryptic Rorschach blots. Hello BPD my old friend...

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    Getting down and dirty with the wildlife…

    November 2, 2011
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    25 Reasons Why Canada Rocks (PHOTOS)

    June 14, 2012
    Urban street at night

    Walking Tall – freedom from sexual harassment in Canada

    June 24, 2013
  • Bridging Cultures,  Expat Life,  Interracial marriage

    Review of “What About Your Saucepans” – genre: expat

    November 15, 2013 /
    What About Your Saucepans? Lindsay De Feliz

    Rediscovery, liberation and romance abroad – it might sound formulaic but if it’s handbags, engagement rings and martinis you’re after forget it... THIS IS CHICK LIT WITH BALLS!

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    Challenges of interracial marriage

    January 7, 2013
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    The Myth Of The 72 Virgins

    March 25, 2013
    Shafia trial

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

    January 30, 2012
  • Blog,  Expat Life

    Passing The Torch – Remembrance Day

    November 11, 2013 /
    Bagpiper, World War I

    Every Remembrance Day I'm reminded of the waste and futility of war, the squandering of life through an inability to live and let live. But today I realised something else: the importance of being clear and committed about what matters to you...

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    How an overseas job can affect family life

    December 15, 2011
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    Making My Choice – Mindfulness In Writing

    June 7, 2012
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    Once Upon a Time in the Hijaz

    August 7, 2012
  • Blog,  Expat Life

    Ties That Bind – What makes us ‘belong’?

    November 6, 2013 /
    The Congress of Freaks from Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey's Circus in 1922

    A large part of Identity is tied up with ‘belonging’. I often hear people talk about feeling comfortable where they ‘fit in’, they mention places where they ‘belong’ or ‘feel at home’. So how do you know where you belong?

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    Once Upon a Time in the Hijaz

    August 7, 2012
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    How do you know your interracial marriage will work?

    October 16, 2015
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    Where do butterflies go to die?

    November 9, 2011

TOPICS

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

  • Bangles, Betrothal & ‘A Good Pakistani Girl’
    Bangles, Betrothal & ‘A Good Pakistani Girl’
  • Where do butterflies go to die?
    Where do butterflies go to die?
  • Hypomania: riding the bipolar high
    Hypomania: riding the bipolar high
  • How People With Autism Fake It
    How People With Autism Fake It
  • Muslim Day at Canada's Wonderland
    Muslim Day at Canada's Wonderland
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    How BPD made me a better expat

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