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  • Autobiographical Posts,  Blog

    Grandad’s Ghost, or, How To Fuck Up A Funeral

    December 17, 2015 /
    Closeup of a pile of vintage family photos

    Time, so boundless at first blush, is a shrinking prison, and it now seems to me ever more important to know the truth, to render the furrows ploughed into memory as accurately and authentically as possible. How else can you know who you are?

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    broken girl

    Who would be a woman?

    November 21, 2012
    I always wanted to be a cowboy

    In My Other Life I’m A Cowboy

    April 30, 2013

    Wanting To Go Back

    March 17, 2017
  • Blog,  Expat Life

    Ties That Bind – What makes us ‘belong’?

    November 6, 2013 /
    The Congress of Freaks from Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey's Circus in 1922

    A large part of Identity is tied up with ‘belonging’. I often hear people talk about feeling comfortable where they ‘fit in’, they mention places where they ‘belong’ or ‘feel at home’. So how do you know where you belong?

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    Rutabaga/Swede

    The Supermarket Experience

    November 7, 2011
    Houris_on_Camelback_-_15th_century_Persia

    The Myth Of The 72 Virgins

    March 25, 2013
    Family at the beach, Ajax, Ontario

    The most precious things

    January 25, 2012
  • Borderline Personality Disorder,  Bridging Cultures,  Expat Life,  Interracial marriage,  Islam,  Mental Health

    Identity – More Than The Sum Of My Parts

    October 26, 2013 /
    A fluid identity

    You might think identity is something that comes from within, but copying and assumption have a huge influence in how we see ourselves.

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    Awards

    Versatile? Me?

    October 17, 2011
    Waves on a shore: Be Water text

    Shoot & Quote: Intangible Water

    November 20, 2013

    Black Flowers Blossom – Surfing the BPD breakers

    November 18, 2013
  • Blog,  Expat Life,  Mental Health

    Review of ‘An Inconvenient Posting – an expat wife’s memoir of lost identity’

    May 22, 2013 /

    Describing an encounter with depression during her family’s expatriation to Houston, USA, Laura J Stephens' memoir will strike a chord with displaced souls everywhere.

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    Toronto Time-Lapse

    Toronto Time-Lapse

    October 10, 2012
    Bismillah-ir-Rahman-ir-Rahim

    A Matter of Faith

    February 13, 2012

    Pumpkin Panic!

    October 3, 2011
  • Blog,  Expat Life

    Expat Limbo

    April 15, 2013 /
    Looking out across Lake Ontario

    Approaching the three-year mark of our Canadian posting this expat's reached an impasse...

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    Different Tree

    How BPD made me a better expat

    January 29, 2013
    Simcoe Point House, Ajax, Ontario; 1911

    History – a moveable feast, or so it would seem…

    August 16, 2012
    Yonge Street, downtown Toronto

    The Coldest February Since Eighteen-Something

    February 25, 2015
  • Bridging Cultures,  Expat Life,  Interracial marriage

    How to stay unique in a world that demands conformity

    March 29, 2013 /
    E.E.Cummings quote

    It’s a big confusing world out there and belonging means someone’s got your back. But what happens when you try to join a group that’s not your own?

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    The Truth About Islam

    The truth about Islam

    September 25, 2012
    muslims praying in a mosgue

    Make Me A Muslim

    February 12, 2013
    Mendhi, Henna

    Traitor to my Culture

    June 10, 2013
  • Autobiographical Posts,  Blog,  Uncategorized

    What’s in a name?

    April 11, 2012 /
    hello-my-name-is

    Do you like your name? Is it your given name, or is it a nickname - something somebody identified about you that stuck, however astutely observant or wildly inaccurate it may be? I grew up with a very different name from the one I have now. I hated it...

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    I always wanted to be a cowboy

    In My Other Life I’m A Cowboy

    April 30, 2013

    Wanting To Go Back

    March 17, 2017
    Awards

    Versatile? Me?

    October 17, 2011
  • Blog,  Expat Life

    Adjustment & Culture Shock

    October 12, 2011 /

    When I agreed to become a "Trailing Spouse", "Expat Wife" etc. I let my natural optimism carry me. I looked forward to change, new opportunities, seeing more of the world. I was excited.Oh yes! You could say I am the Queen of Naive Thinking!

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    Window on our world

    Toronto Harbour Cruise

    August 14, 2013
    the letter C

    A-Z of Canada: C is for Cottage

    March 5, 2012
    Shovelling snow in Whitby, Ontario

    Surviving a Canadian Winter

    September 9, 2011
  • Blog,  Expat Life

    Square peg in a round hole? Get used to it… you’re an expat.

    September 16, 2011 /

    What does the term "expat" mean to you? If anyone had asked me that a few years ago, it would have conjured up images of sunburnt Brits on the Costa del Sol, eating full English breakfasts, wearing Union Jack shorts and waving cans of Carlsberg at anyone within shouting distance.

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    Adjustment & Culture Shock

    October 12, 2011
    hello-my-name-is

    What’s in a name?

    April 11, 2012
    Window on our world

    Toronto Harbour Cruise

    August 14, 2013
  • Blog,  Expat Life

    Arrested Development

    August 1, 2011 /

    Back in England, my life was full of Things but no Substance. Living on a shoestring here in Canada has been like slowly waking up from a long sleep.

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    A-Z of Canada: E is for Emerge

    June 17, 2013

    Now where did I put my Chihuahua?

    August 16, 2011
    camh logo

    Mindfulness in Depression Relapse Prevention – Autopilot & Raisins

    May 30, 2012

TOPICS

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    • Interracial Marriage
    • Islam
  • MENTAL HEALTH
    • Aspergers
    • Bipolar
    • Mindfulness
  • PHOTOGRAPHY
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Top Posts & Pages

  • Leaving Islam - irreconcilable differences
    Leaving Islam - irreconcilable differences
  • Britain vs. Canada
    Britain vs. Canada
  • Make Me A Muslim
    Make Me A Muslim
  • What happens to the kids if you die overseas?
    What happens to the kids if you die overseas?
  • Bangles, Betrothal & ‘A Good Pakistani Girl’
    Bangles, Betrothal & ‘A Good Pakistani Girl’
  • How People With Autism Fake It
    How People With Autism Fake It

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