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  • Autobiographical Posts

    All we could do was wait…

    March 5, 2013 /
    sunset-by-the-library, Dundas St. Whitby

    As T berates me for my poor timekeeping my mind returns to the days when my father collected me from school. I smile to myself at how lucky he is - I know all about waiting…

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    September 9, 2012

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    March 17, 2017
    Horizontal view of a threat to a woman at night

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    June 16, 2016
  • Writing

    Mummy bloggers – the retail industry’s secret weapon?

    December 10, 2012 /
    Children sitting on the lakeshore, Lake Ontario

    They’re just like you and me aren’t they? Down-to-earth, honest-to-goodness parents giving us the inside scoop on child rearing. But access to family email inboxes nationwide makes the mummy blogger a marketing man’s dream. What if some of them embrace the Dark Side?

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    Beginning the Book

    January 31, 2013

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    Writing

    I write because…

    November 5, 2012
  • Autobiographical Posts,  Blog,  Mental Health

    Choking on the memory

    September 9, 2012 /
    Buzzard soaring

    When the kids to wrap their fingers around my neck in play I’m transported back in time to the day a man strangled his daughter on the stairs of their home while her mother and siblings watched...

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    Wanting To Go Back

    March 17, 2017
    Nuns on the run

    My Mother Was A Nun

    March 7, 2013
    Children and dogs

    “D’ya like dags?”

    May 9, 2014
  • Mental Health,  Uncategorized

    Behind closed doors

    November 14, 2011 /
    abuse, child abuse

    What is a blog for, if not for getting your thoughts down and into some semblance of order? I'll inform you now, this post has nothing whatsoever to do with expat life. Try as I might to redirect it, my mind is stuck on only one thing today, so here goes, I may as well follow my instincts and say goodbye to rationality...

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    Stigma is still biggest hurdle to treating depression

    February 28, 2012
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    A bitter pill to swallow

    July 11, 2012
    A climber helping a companion over the lip of a rockface.

    Holding On – thoughts on suicide

    August 14, 2014

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Top Posts & Pages

  • Bangles, Betrothal & ‘A Good Pakistani Girl’
    Bangles, Betrothal & ‘A Good Pakistani Girl’
  • Battling BPD
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    O Canada, O What do I do?
  • How to stay unique in a world that demands conformity
    How to stay unique in a world that demands conformity
  • Marrying into a different culture – The clash of East and West
    Marrying into a different culture – The clash of East and West
  • Nude yoga: Now available in Toronto
    Nude yoga: Now available in Toronto
  • How People With Autism Fake It
    How People With Autism Fake It

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