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    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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    Adjustment & Culture Shock

    October 12, 2011
    Dairymilk chocolate bar partially unwrapped

    Chocolate heaven…

    January 6, 2012
    camh logo

    Mindfulness in Depression Relapse Prevention – Facing Difficulties

    August 22, 2012
  • Photography

    Point & Shoot: Family life – everyday, like no other

    September 22, 2014 /
    Union Pacific freight car on an over-road bridge

    "Good weekend?" ...and you stand there vacant as a sixties flowerchild - mind scrabbling for a trace, a scrap, a glistening nugget of memory that will bring the two-day void back into focus. 'What DID we do?'

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    The first ever Whitby Ribfest

    The Ribfest Comes to Whitby

    July 16, 2012

    Point & Shoot: Christmas comes early

    December 9, 2013

    Losing our cares at the beach

    March 8, 2012
  • Expat Life,  Photography

    Point & Shoot: The scramble to school

    September 2, 2014 /

    The weather has steadily grown more humid in the past week, as if to taunt us. The first day of school dawned a sticky 30 degrees on the humidex...

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    the beach, lake ontario

    The magnetic pull of Lake Ontario

    June 13, 2012
    Skunk

    School Lockdown – blame it on the skunk

    September 29, 2011

    Driving License Transfer – Time to make a Will…

    September 14, 2011
  • Photography

    Point & Shoot: The Final Countdown

    August 26, 2014 /

    Next week I'll walk my children to school and, instead of having S's incomparable company for the return journey, I'll be walking back alone...

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    Family at the beach, Ajax, Ontario

    The most precious things

    January 25, 2012
    Donuts at Tim Hortons

    Point & Shoot: foodporn

    March 17, 2014
    Whitby Ribfest 2013

    Ever been to a rib-eating contest?

    July 17, 2013
  • Expat Life,  Photography

    Point & Shoot: This American Life

    August 11, 2014 /

    It’s funny, when I was fifteen I was convinced I was born in the wrong time. I should have existed in 1950’s New York ... as James Dean

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    Easy Rider – our latest expat experience

    May 14, 2013
    hockey night

    Pucks and Punch-Ups

    January 22, 2013

    Should we get a cat?

    September 12, 2011
  • Expat Life,  Photography

    Point & Shoot: Weekend ribs, rides & revelry

    July 14, 2014 /

    Visitors to Toronto are often surprised to discover the Toronto Islands, a pint-sized archipelago just offshore of the bustling lakeside metropolis.

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    Now where did I put my Chihuahua?

    August 16, 2011

    Adjustment & Culture Shock

    October 12, 2011
    Oshawa Generals logo

    A visit from the Oshawa Generals

    January 19, 2012
  • Aspergers,  Bipolar,  Mental Health,  Photography

    Point & Shoot: Creativity

    June 9, 2014 /

    We had the luxury of a three-day weekend thanks to last Friday's PA day, and right from the start it was an outpouring of creative energy...

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    Autism and Friendship – Flying Into The Windowpane

    October 24, 2017

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

    February 10, 2017
    Surprised tabby cat

    Why An Autism Diagnosis Is Like Finding Out You’re Adopted

    November 6, 2015
  • Expat Life,  Photography

    Point & Shoot: foodporn

    March 17, 2014 /
    Donuts at Tim Hortons

    Weekends in our house are all about the food (this is, after all, home of the #epicbreakfast) so be prepared for shameless foodporn photography. You have been warned…

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    Arrested Development

    August 1, 2011
    Homemade Shepherd's Pie

    Winter Warmer – Homemade Shepherd’s Pie

    November 27, 2013
    BBC-announcer, April 1st, TV prank

    Don’t be fooled this April 1st!

    April 1, 2013
  • Photography

    Point & Shoot: A Weekend Of Sugar & Ice & All Things Nice

    February 3, 2014 /

    Friday was a PA day so the weekend started early for us...

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    Window on our world

    Fish’n’Chips

    August 16, 2013
    Yummy Mummy - CLIC Sargent

    Yummy Mummy

    February 28, 2012
    Close-up of a child's profile

    A Second Chance

    February 5, 2013
  • Expat Life,  Living in Canada,  Photography

    Point & Shoot: Shopping in a snowstorm

    January 27, 2014 /
    Navigating Snowdrifts

    Our weekends generally follow a familiar pattern: breakfast like kings, lounge around in PJ's until the afternoon, then get out and do something with the remainder of the day...

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    Driving License Transfer – Time to make a Will…

    September 14, 2011
    Oshawa Generals logo

    A visit from the Oshawa Generals

    January 19, 2012

    Wicked weather

    August 25, 2011
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