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  • 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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    Awards

    Versatile? Me?

    October 17, 2011
    restrained

    Ungrateful Bitch (Part 2)

    March 6, 2012
    Calm, Lake Ontario

    Freedom & Fear – two sides of the same coin

    August 30, 2013
  • Blog,  Uncategorized

    Dear Tooth Fairy… Baby Teeth – Do You Keep Them?

    October 21, 2013 /
    Letter To The Tooth Fairy

    I'm not really sure why but I keep my children's baby teeth when they fall out. I can't bring myself to throw them away. What do you do with your little one's teeth?

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    Investigating relapse prevention in depression

    March 15, 2012
    The Truth About Islam

    The truth about Islam

    September 25, 2012
    hockey night

    Pucks and Punch-Ups

    January 22, 2013
  • Blog,  Uncategorized

    RIP Google Reader

    June 26, 2013 /
    RIPGoogleReader

    If you've just realised time is short, grab your coffee, your stressball or your cross-stitch, take a deep breath, and I'll show you some alternatives to losing that perfectly honed list of blogs you've become attached to over the years...

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    The first ever Whitby Ribfest

    The Ribfest Comes to Whitby

    July 16, 2012
    expat-focus-website

    Car Insurance In Canada – 5 Tips For Expats

    May 7, 2012
    Yonge Street, downtown Toronto

    The Coldest February Since Eighteen-Something

    February 25, 2015
  • 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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    What’s in a name?

    April 11, 2012
    Nuns on the run

    My Mother Was A Nun

    March 7, 2013
    Children and dogs

    “D’ya like dags?”

    May 9, 2014
  • Uncategorized

    We’re moving!

    March 18, 2013 /
    Auto Fest at the Ontario Shores Mindful Music Festival

    A move to independence has been in the works for some time, but the day is finally here. Expatlogue is going self-hosted which means that instead of riding in the car, I have the keys!

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    I always wanted to be a cowboy

    In My Other Life I’m A Cowboy

    April 30, 2013
    Looking out across the water, Lake Ontario

    I never knew you felt that way…

    December 15, 2012
    © Blog of the Year Award

    It’s Awards Season

    November 7, 2012
  • Uncategorized

    I never knew you felt that way…

    December 15, 2012 /
    Looking out across the water, Lake Ontario

    I'm amazed and thrilled that something I began purely as a personal endeavour has struck a chord with so many of you. Learning that I have a chance at winning GOLD has really opened my eyes to the support you give me and I'm profoundly grateful.

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    The versatile blogger award

    Nominated!

    February 10, 2012
    Family on the deck

    Do you live to write or write to live?

    September 23, 2012
    Liebster Blog Award

    Another award??? ‘Scuse me, one minute while I deflate my head!

    October 31, 2011
  • Uncategorized

    …just a quick “Thankyou”

    November 12, 2012 /

    A few months ago I read the gripping tale of a woman who changed the direction of her life, trusting in her skills and broadening her abilities in order to make the leap of working abroad. Amazingly, she's awarded me the Blogger of the Year Award!

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    Loweswarehouse

    Lowe’s sinks to new low

    December 13, 2011

    Canada becomes part of Occupy Wall Street movement

    October 15, 2011
    RIPGoogleReader

    RIP Google Reader

    June 26, 2013
  • Uncategorized

    It’s Awards Season

    November 7, 2012 /
    © Blog of the Year Award

    When it comes to a blog, it's the readers that make it. The comments and conversations, reading and sharing encourage me to write with ever greater enthusiasm, passion and clarity. Here's a smattering of stars from the blogosphere...

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    Lowe’s sinks to new low

    December 13, 2011
    Looking out across the water, Lake Ontario

    I never knew you felt that way…

    December 15, 2012
    tell-me-about-yourself-award

    My blog is great…apparently!

    November 23, 2011
  • Blog,  Uncategorized,  Writing

    Is language in danger?

    October 25, 2012 /
    Vocabulary list

    Language is a living, evolving entity, but doesn’t it need nurturing and protection like any other living thing? We seek to preserve species, geographical sites and places of historical interest – what about the tools with which we convey our deepest instincts, fears and truths – the essence of what it is to be human?

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    Looking out across the water, Lake Ontario

    The Power of Nature

    April 8, 2012

    The hardest part…

    November 5, 2011
    chocolate bars, candy bars

    “It’s chocolate Jim, but not as we know it…”

    November 19, 2011
  • Blog,  Uncategorized,  Writing

    Do you live to write or write to live?

    September 23, 2012 /
    Family on the deck

    Whatever made me think I’d be immune? I’d read the blog posts about pressure sapping creativity and the danger of writing for your audience instead of yourself and shrugged it off with nonchalant naivety - that didn't sound like me at all...

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    Black Flowers Blossom – Surfing the BPD breakers

    November 18, 2013

    A Sunday stroll and a history lesson

    November 21, 2011
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    Mindfulness in Depression Relapse Prevention – Exploring the landscape of depression

    August 2, 2012
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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?
  • How People With Autism Fake It
    How People With Autism Fake It
  • Marrying into a different culture – The clash of East and West
    Marrying into a different culture – The clash of East and West
  • Desperation in the City of Dreaming Spires
    Desperation in the City of Dreaming Spires
  • Meeting the In-Laws - bridging the cultural divide
    Meeting the In-Laws - bridging the cultural divide
  • Ungrateful Bitch (Part 3)
    Ungrateful Bitch (Part 3)
  • How BPD made me a better expat
    How BPD made me a better expat

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