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    The Coldest February Since Eighteen-Something

    February 25, 2015 /
    Yonge Street, downtown Toronto

    They said on the radio today this was the coldest February since eighteen-something. After a certain point cold is cold is cold.

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    Smooth Moves for Expat Kids – tips to ease the transition

    February 8, 2012
    Kids enjoying the snow

    Love in a cold climate…

    February 8, 2013
    Letter To The Tooth Fairy

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

    October 21, 2013
  • Photography

    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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    View from a (car) window…

    December 9, 2011
    Waves on a shore: Be Water text

    Shoot & Quote: Intangible Water

    November 20, 2013
    Whitby Ribfest 2013

    Ever been to a rib-eating contest?

    July 17, 2013
  • 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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    Donuts at Tim Hortons

    Point & Shoot: foodporn

    March 17, 2014
    Simcoe Point House, Ajax, Ontario; 1911

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

    August 16, 2012

    Requiem for Jenna Morrison

    November 15, 2011
  • 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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    Fed up of the Fords

    December 1, 2011

    The Lake At The Centre Of My World

    August 21, 2013

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

    July 9, 2013
  • 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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    What About Your Saucepans? Lindsay De Feliz

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

    November 15, 2013
    Toronto, Traffic, commute

    The Toronto commute named one of the world’s worst

    November 11, 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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    Where Have You Been?

    May 29, 2014
    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
    Child with aspergers

    When Aspergers Is Good News

    March 13, 2014
  • 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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    Altruistic expat, AECOM's Khawar Ashraf

    Unexpected Benefits

    February 1, 2013
    Oshawa Generals logo

    A visit from the Oshawa Generals

    January 19, 2012
    crime in canada

    Crime in Canada

    November 28, 2011
  • 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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    Point & Shoot: Creativity

    June 9, 2014
    Family at the beach, Ajax, Ontario

    The most precious things

    January 25, 2012

    Wherever The Fancy Takes You

    September 4, 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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    7 things to remember when moving to Canada

    March 7, 2012
    ice skate

    Skater Girl

    November 22, 2011
    Altruistic expat, AECOM's Khawar Ashraf

    Unexpected Benefits

    February 1, 2013
  • 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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    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
    The Unity Button

    The Unity Button

    October 3, 2012
    Table with various arabic food served

    Making A Meal Of Ramadan

    June 22, 2015
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