I was trying to write an online dating profile. I stared at pictures of different men in their various fitness poses: straddling bikes, standing – arms outstretched on mountain tops,…
Tashi Farmilo-Marouf

Tashi Farmilo-Marouf tries to float down from the clouds every once in a while, to do something practical, like write poems. I’m a mother of five, artist and writer too.
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We are the yin and yang, male and female who balance each other out – or at least in an ideal world we would. When we come together, we can…
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Things are changing inside my body. I suspect it’s that peri-menopause thing setting in. Sort of like a special kind of global warming for women over 40. It started with…
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We grow up on a diet of societal rhetoric. From the time we are little, we are dictated to – either outright or through a thousand subliminal daggers to the…
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My five children and I live in what I lovingly refer to as, the ghetto. It’s probably not as ghetto as some ghettos but it’s definitely very ghetto for Ottawa. It’s…