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    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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    Black Flowers Blossom – Surfing the BPD breakers

    November 18, 2013
    Navigating Snowdrifts

    Point & Shoot: Shopping in a snowstorm

    January 27, 2014
    The first ever Whitby Ribfest

    The Ribfest Comes to Whitby

    July 16, 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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    Paris – The Friendliest Place On Earth

    December 4, 2013

    Patriotism

    September 27, 2011
    Skunk

    School Lockdown – blame it on the skunk

    September 29, 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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    Point & Shoot: The Icestorm Cometh

    December 23, 2013
    Union Pacific freight car on an over-road bridge

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

    September 22, 2014
    Supermarket

    The (Supermarket) Help

    August 27, 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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    Elton John & David Furnish

    A penguin love story with a twist

    November 6, 2011

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

    December 16, 2013
    Rutabaga/Swede

    The Supermarket Experience

    November 7, 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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    The Lake At The Centre Of My World

    August 21, 2013
    painted handprints

    Tolerance and Acceptance – subtle differences with a BIG impact

    November 29, 2011

    Canada’s Weather – What it’s REALLY like…

    October 19, 2011
  • 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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    Woman in novelty sunglasses stares into the camera

    Accepting Disability – A Work In Progress

    January 28, 2015
    Eggs in an eggbox with faces drawn on them, the majority looking at one different coloured egg among them.

    Adult Autism: Is That A Thing?

    October 28, 2015

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

    February 10, 2017
  • 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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    The A-Team

    The A-Team

    February 21, 2013

    Patriotism

    September 27, 2011
    Cartoon mosquito

    Under Surveillance: West Nile Virus In Canada

    July 11, 2014
  • 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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    Looking out across the water, Lake Ontario

    The Power of Nature

    April 8, 2012

    Black Flowers Blossom – Surfing the BPD breakers

    November 18, 2013

    The Great Outdoors

    February 22, 2012
  • 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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    Troubles in Britain

    August 9, 2011

    A-Z of Canada: E is for Emerge

    June 17, 2013
    bunch of coloured balloons

    All The Things He Said

    August 6, 2014
  • Blog,  Expat Life,  Photography

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

    December 16, 2013 /

    What is it about getting spooked that makes you giggle?

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    Black and white image of a crowd protesting race mixing in the US

    How do you know your interracial marriage will work?

    October 16, 2015
    Dog escaping

    Ungrateful Bitch (Part 1)

    February 27, 2012
    Tim Hortons sign on bus shelter

    5 Ways to Wind A Canadian Up

    January 14, 2013
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