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  • Autobiographical Posts,  Expat Life

    Wanting To Go Back

    March 17, 2017 /

    The mould that makes you shapes you forever.

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    Old book open on wooden table

    A Book, a Bereavement, and a Betrayal

    February 3, 2016
    Horizontal view of a threat to a woman at night

    Growing Up Girl: Sexual Assault As Standard

    June 16, 2016
    hello-my-name-is

    What’s in a name?

    April 11, 2012
  • Autobiographical Posts,  Blog,  Mental Health,  Uncategorized

    Growing Up Girl: Sexual Assault As Standard

    June 16, 2016 /
    Horizontal view of a threat to a woman at night

    As the world opens up for men it shrinks for women, to a space the exact size of your body and no more. Because, first and foremost, a body is all you are.

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    Poison

    That Laugh

    June 19, 2013
    Children with raised hands in a classroom

    The Question

    July 16, 2014
    Dog escaping

    Ungrateful Bitch (Part 1)

    February 27, 2012
  • Autobiographical Posts,  Blog,  Expat Life

    A Book, a Bereavement, and a Betrayal

    February 3, 2016 /
    Old book open on wooden table

    One day, I reached for it and it was gone...

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    Horizontal view of a threat to a woman at night

    Growing Up Girl: Sexual Assault As Standard

    June 16, 2016
    Nuns on the run

    My Mother Was A Nun

    March 7, 2013
    Children with raised hands in a classroom

    The Question

    July 16, 2014
  • Autobiographical Posts,  Blog

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

    December 17, 2015 /
    Closeup of a pile of vintage family photos

    Time, so boundless at first blush, is a shrinking prison, and it now seems to me ever more important to know the truth, to render the furrows ploughed into memory as accurately and authentically as possible. How else can you know who you are?

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    Dog escaping

    Ungrateful Bitch (Part 1)

    February 27, 2012
    Black and white, woman offering man flowers

    An Apologist’s Apology

    March 12, 2015
    Nuns on the run

    My Mother Was A Nun

    March 7, 2013
  • Autobiographical Posts,  Blog,  Islam

    An Apologist’s Apology

    March 12, 2015 /
    Black and white, woman offering man flowers

    Instead of building intercultural bridges as I imagined, I was adding my bricks to the prisons so many are walled up in by their own communities...

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    Buzzard soaring

    Choking on the memory

    September 9, 2012
    teddy-alone

    Ungrateful Bitch (Part 3)

    April 9, 2012
    Horizontal view of a threat to a woman at night

    Growing Up Girl: Sexual Assault As Standard

    June 16, 2016
  • Autobiographical Posts,  Bipolar,  Mental Health

    The Question

    July 16, 2014 /
    Children with raised hands in a classroom

    My mother sat me down at the table, “I think you’re old enough now to understand... your father’s not well”

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    sunset-by-the-library, Dundas St. Whitby

    All we could do was wait…

    March 5, 2013
    restrained

    Ungrateful Bitch (Part 2)

    March 6, 2012
    Children and dogs

    “D’ya like dags?”

    May 9, 2014
  • Autobiographical Posts,  Mental Health

    “D’ya like dags?”

    May 9, 2014 /
    Children and dogs

    The dogs in my past are bound forever to the struggles or deceptions I faced at the time...

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    Buzzard soaring

    Choking on the memory

    September 9, 2012
    Old book open on wooden table

    A Book, a Bereavement, and a Betrayal

    February 3, 2016
    Children with raised hands in a classroom

    The Question

    July 16, 2014
  • Autobiographical Posts,  Blog,  Mental Health

    Freedom & Fear – two sides of the same coin

    August 30, 2013 /
    Calm, Lake Ontario

    The most important kind of freedom is to be who you really are. Expose yourself to your deepest fear. After that, fear has no power. But does it ever go away?

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    Children and dogs

    “D’ya like dags?”

    May 9, 2014
    Black and white, woman offering man flowers

    An Apologist’s Apology

    March 12, 2015
    Children with raised hands in a classroom

    The Question

    July 16, 2014
  • Autobiographical Posts,  Bipolar,  Mental Health

    That Laugh

    June 19, 2013 /
    Poison

    As I waited for the punchline that never came I was suddenly, brutally aware I was sitting next to a man I didn’t know...

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    Horizontal view of a threat to a woman at night

    Growing Up Girl: Sexual Assault As Standard

    June 16, 2016
    hello-my-name-is

    What’s in a name?

    April 11, 2012
    Aisha and Khawar Ashraf

    Unexpected Love

    February 14, 2013
  • Autobiographical Posts,  Blog,  Uncategorized

    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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    Children with raised hands in a classroom

    The Question

    July 16, 2014
    Aisha and Khawar Ashraf

    Unexpected Love

    February 14, 2013
    sunset-by-the-library, Dundas St. Whitby

    All we could do was wait…

    March 5, 2013
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    Leaving Islam - irreconcilable differences
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    What happens to the kids if you die overseas?
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    How People With Autism Fake It

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