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  • Aspergers,  Blog,  Expat Life

    Autism and Friendship – Flying Into The Windowpane

    October 24, 2017 /

    For some of us with autism, pursuing a friendship beyond the surface superficialities imposed by polite society is fraught with difficulty and self-doubt.

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    Accepting Disability – A Work In Progress

    January 28, 2015
    Child with aspergers

    When Aspergers Is Good News

    March 13, 2014

    Doing Autism Differently

    April 2, 2015
  • Autobiographical Posts,  Expat Life

    Wanting To Go Back

    March 17, 2017 /

    The mould that makes you shapes you forever.

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    Buzzard soaring

    Choking on the memory

    September 9, 2012
    hello-my-name-is

    What’s in a name?

    April 11, 2012
    The Model School, Athy

    The Model School, Athy

    November 19, 2012
  • Blog,  Living in Canada

    A Knight To Remember – Medieval Times Dinner & Tournament

    June 7, 2016 /
    Close-up of the left shoulder of a medieval breastplate

    When it comes to carefree escapism Medieval Times Dinner and Tournament holds the crown.

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    A penguin love story with a twist

    November 6, 2011

    “If you’ve met one person with autism, you’ve met one person with autism”

    February 10, 2017
    earth-day-2012-logo

    How eco-friendly is Canada?

    April 22, 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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    Awards

    Versatile? Me?

    October 17, 2011
    sunset-by-the-library, Dundas St. Whitby

    All we could do was wait…

    March 5, 2013
    The Model School, Athy

    The Model School, Athy

    November 19, 2012
  • Blog,  Interracial marriage

    How do you know your interracial marriage will work?

    October 16, 2015 /
    Black and white image of a crowd protesting race mixing in the US

    When K and I decided to be together it turns out, looking back, neither one of us gave it a lot of thought...

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    Like sunlight piercing cloud

    August 27, 2012

    Adjustment & Culture Shock

    October 12, 2011
    Elton John & David Furnish

    A penguin love story with a twist

    November 6, 2011
  • Blog,  Bridging Cultures,  Islam

    Making A Meal Of Ramadan

    June 22, 2015 /
    Table with various arabic food served

    Is it just me or does Ramadan seem to get more air-time and column inches with every passing year?

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    Stigma is still biggest hurdle to treating depression

    February 28, 2012

    “If you’ve met one person with autism, you’ve met one person with autism”

    February 10, 2017

    A Sunday stroll and a history lesson

    November 21, 2011
  • 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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    Unexpected Love

    February 14, 2013
    Children and dogs

    “D’ya like dags?”

    May 9, 2014
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    Ungrateful Bitch (Part 2)

    March 6, 2012
  • Blog,  Expat Life,  Living in Canada,  Photography

    The Coldest February Since Eighteen-Something

    February 25, 2015 /
    Yonge Street, downtown Toronto

    They said on the radio today this was the coldest February since eighteen-something. After a certain point cold is cold is cold.

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    The A-Team

    The A-Team

    February 21, 2013

    Point & Shoot: Christmas comes early

    December 9, 2013
    Canadian Tire money

    You know you’re settled in Canada when…

    January 24, 2013
  • Islam

    Leaving Islam – the hangover

    November 10, 2014 /
    A vintage old bird cage shaped like a human head

    There's no room for questions or variance in expression of belief in Islam - to be true to myself I must step out.

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    Censorship – muslims caught in the middle

    March 31, 2012
    Bismillah-ir-Rahman-ir-Rahim

    A Matter of Faith

    February 13, 2012
    Shafia trial

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

    January 30, 2012
  • Islam

    Leaving Islam – irreconcilable differences

    October 31, 2014 /
    Sunset through a scalloped archway

    Previously I owned up to the deep disquiet I’ve been feeling about my faith; how I suppressed it, and how I tried to reignite my conviction. But my quest only unearthed more reasons to hold it in question. This wasn't a dip in devotion - it was a derailment.

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    The Qur'an

    Once Upon a Time in the Hijaz

    August 7, 2012
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    AND THE WINNER IS…

    April 16, 2012
    Window on our world

    How I Discovered The Real Ramadan

    July 30, 2013
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Top Posts & Pages

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

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