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  • 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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    The Model School, Athy

    The Model School, Athy

    November 19, 2012
    Dog escaping

    Ungrateful Bitch (Part 1)

    February 27, 2012
    Aisha and Khawar Ashraf

    Unexpected Love

    February 14, 2013
  • Expat Life

    Expat Lasts – A Life Of Goodbyes

    March 21, 2014 /
    Saying goodbye

    Much is written about the ‘firsts’ in life, those milestones that mark our progression along this mortal coil, but very little about the ‘lasts’ ...

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    7 things to remember when moving to Canada

    March 7, 2012

    ‘The sun will come out… tomorrow’ – patience & expat life

    July 9, 2013
    expat-focus-website

    The soundtrack to life abroad

    July 8, 2012
  • 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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    Lewis Hine, Boy studying, ca. 1924

    BPD LIKE A BOSS! Don’t let your diagnosis define you

    June 13, 2013
    stompin-tom-connors

    The Day The Stompin’ Stopped

    March 8, 2013
    The Congress of Freaks from Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey's Circus in 1922

    Ties That Bind – What makes us ‘belong’?

    November 6, 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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    Point & Shoot – Blizzards, books & bumps in the night

    December 16, 2013

    Christmas, You’ve Changed!

    December 20, 2013
    Insulation by Cadburys

    “Life is like a box of chocolates…”

    January 17, 2013
  • Expat Life

    We Hunkered Down & Pressed On…

    January 10, 2014 /
    Tractor-trailer powers through blizzard

    This current freeze reminded me of our first Canadian winter, four years ago. UK southern softies fresh from London life, we had none of the protective, insulating clothing most Canadians take for granted ...

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    A is for Awesome

    A-Z of Canada: A is for Awesome

    January 16, 2012
    policelinedonotcross

    Corruption in Canada

    December 4, 2011

    Getting down and dirty with the wildlife…

    November 2, 2011
  • Blog,  Expat Life,  Living in Canada,  Photography

    Point & Shoot: Flash Freeze

    January 6, 2014 /
    flash freeze in Ontario, Canada

    I'm starting to think I should get my own map and ten minute slot as everything I post recently revolves around the weather, but it's unavoidably the big story here in Canada right now. After a couple of years of unseasonably warm winters, this 'mutha' has left us reeling...

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    Do something that makes a difference today…

    February 7, 2012
    chocolate bars, candy bars

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

    November 19, 2011
    Dead Leaves on wood

    Story of A Miscarriage (Part 2)

    October 17, 2013
  • Expat Life,  Living in Canada,  Photography

    Point & Shoot: The Icestorm Cometh

    December 23, 2013 /

    I fell asleep to the sound of ice pellets tapping the window while blue-white flashes from exploding transformers and arcing power lines lit up the sky. In the early hours of the morning the power finally failed...

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    What About Your Saucepans? Lindsay De Feliz

    Review of “What About Your Saucepans” – genre: expat

    November 15, 2013
    bunch of coloured balloons

    All The Things He Said

    August 6, 2014

    A Sunday stroll and a history lesson

    November 21, 2011
  • Expat Life,  Living in Canada

    Christmas, You’ve Changed!

    December 20, 2013 /

    Christmas in another country brings a curious reminder of the diversity to be found in the universal...

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    Hiding from the cold indoors

    Heating A Canadian Home

    January 9, 2014
    B is for... bi-lingual

    A-Z of Canada: B is for Bi-Lingual

    January 24, 2012
    Tractor-trailer powers through blizzard

    We Hunkered Down & Pressed On…

    January 10, 2014
  • Blog,  Expat Life

    Paris – The Friendliest Place On Earth

    December 4, 2013 /

    We pull into the fresh-looking plaza on the outskirts of town, its clean lines and manicured verges incongruous amongst the trees and cornfields round about, like work shoes worn with jeans...

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    Wicked weather

    August 25, 2011
    Family at the beach, Ajax, Ontario

    The most precious things

    January 25, 2012
    bell_lets_talk

    Stigma is still biggest hurdle to treating depression

    February 28, 2012
  • Blog,  Expat Life,  Photography

    Winter Is Coming

    November 27, 2013 /

    The air is still, there's no breeze. Expectation hangs dumbly like a first-grader trying to cut in at the school disco. Everything waits...

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    Girl on a rock at the lakeshore

    Battling BPD

    April 8, 2013
    break the silence

    A bitter pill to swallow

    July 11, 2012

    Black Flowers Blossom – Surfing the BPD breakers

    November 18, 2013
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Top Posts & Pages

  • Bangles, Betrothal & ‘A Good Pakistani Girl’
    Bangles, Betrothal & ‘A Good Pakistani Girl’
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    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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