Aysha Mendes

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This is a blog about navigating personal identity and societal norms. I write about everything from health, motherhood and work, to appearance, class and prejudice. Yellow Lyme is about engaging, asking questions, and seeing things from multiple perspectives. Where one person will see a lemon, another will see a yellow lime. Enjoy your stay, visit often, invite along your favourite people, and write to me with your thoughts and ideas.

 

 

Aysha Mendes

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On being a 'generous receiver'...

September 27, 2017

So a few weeks ago, I was in Sunny Supermarket buying some groceries. The lady in front of me realized she was $0.80 or so short for her order. So I told her I have change and tried to pay the balance. She was a little taken aback by my offer, promptly refusing and rem...

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Honing a new kind of super power...

July 18, 2017

So sometimes I take on too much. I've been known to believe I have superpowers and then come crashing back down to earth when I burn out. And I've done this more than once.

Yet I've also been known to tell other people to take it easy, to acknowledge they have a lot g...

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Coming out of the closet...

July 14, 2017

So some of you know I was raised as an Ismaili Muslim. Some of you also know I stopped identifying as one about 12+ years ago. Now this decision had nothing to do with the religion of Islam, with the faith of the Ismaili sect, or with the people within these communitie...

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An 'unromantic' love story...

August 20, 2013

Note to readers: Unfortunately this blog post (which has undeniably been the most popular) is incomplete as the latter part of it has been inexplicably lost and I have been unable to recover a backup. My apologies for this - If I'm able to find it, I will replace it he...

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Featured Posts

An overrated myth called security...

July 26, 2014

Colouring outside the lines...

June 1, 2013

On living a diversified life…

March 25, 2015

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