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  • 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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    Doing Autism Differently

    April 2, 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
    Child with aspergers

    When Aspergers Is Good News

    March 13, 2014
  • 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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    Yonge Street, downtown Toronto

    The Coldest February Since Eighteen-Something

    February 25, 2015
    Pulled apart by horses

    Torn

    May 6, 2012
    Simcoe Point House, Ajax, Ontario; 1911

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

    August 16, 2012
  • 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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    Rutabaga/Swede

    The Supermarket Experience

    November 7, 2011
    Town Bell, Paris, Ontario

    For Whom The Bell Tolls (or A Funny Thing Happened In Paris)

    September 30, 2013
    muslims praying in a mosgue

    Make Me A Muslim

    February 12, 2013
  • Blog,  Expat Life,  Living in Canada,  Photography

    Point & Shoot: Polar Plunge

    December 30, 2013 /

    I skipped breakfast, grabbed my camera and jumped in the jeep. The Polar Plunge started at 11am and I knew from past experience a couple of minutes delay would mean missing the whole thing...

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    View from a (car) window…

    December 9, 2011

    Winter Is Coming

    November 27, 2013
    Decorative purple carnival mask

    How People With Autism Fake It

    September 30, 2015
  • 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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    Paris, Ontario

    Playing In Paris

    October 2, 2013

    Christmas, You’ve Changed!

    December 20, 2013
    broken_society_tag, graffiti

    Black Friday’s alternate meaning

    November 25, 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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    American pancakes & coffee

    Sex up your weekend with American-style pancakes

    November 26, 2011

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

    September 16, 2011
    Altruistic expat, AECOM's Khawar Ashraf

    Unexpected Benefits

    February 1, 2013
  • 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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    Winter Is Coming

    November 27, 2013

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

    May 22, 2013
    Looking out across the water, Lake Ontario

    The Power of Nature

    April 8, 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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    Top expats on Twitter: Aisha Ashraf – Telegraph

    July 6, 2012

    Should we get a cat?

    September 12, 2011
    Awards

    Versatile? Me?

    October 17, 2011
  • Blog,  Expat Life

    5 Ways to Wind A Canadian Up

    January 14, 2013 /
    Tim Hortons sign on bus shelter

    Canadians have a global reputation as peacekeepers and pacifists but, just like the rest of us mortals, their patience isn’t limitless; some things are guaranteed to get them fired up. Here are five situations where you’re unlikely to see them at their best…

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    hunter and trophy

    Do hunters have a place in today’s world?

    December 7, 2011
    Letter To The Tooth Fairy

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

    October 21, 2013
    Houris_on_Camelback_-_15th_century_Persia

    The Myth Of The 72 Virgins

    March 25, 2013
  • Blog,  Photography

    The Great Outdoors

    February 22, 2012 /

    The end of February brings hope and excitement as the cold weather weakens and we start to sense the slow creep of Spring. Shrugging off the survival mind-set that got us through the winter, it feels great to be alive again!

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    crime in canada

    Crime in Canada

    November 28, 2011
    muslim day at Canada's Wonderland poster

    Muslim Day at Canada’s Wonderland

    July 10, 2012
    expatblog logo

    ExpatBlog – A Helping Hand For Canadian Expats

    May 15, 2012
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    How People With Autism Fake It
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    Meeting the In-Laws - bridging the cultural divide
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    Britain vs. Canada
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    Marrying into a different culture – The clash of East and West
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    AND THE WINNER IS...
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    “D’ya like dags?”
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    Nude yoga: Now available in Toronto

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