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I have yet to find a complete methodology for translating reality. Can you clarify?

I did not specify which reality I was translating. Perhaps we perceive different realities?

What if I read your blog and have an existential crisis?

First, know that I support you just as you are. When in doubt, breathe in breathe out.
You have so much purpose simply by being alive. If a major crisis occurs, it means you are gifted; a critical thinker and perhaps edging close to a personal evolution. It could also mean you are currently intoxicated and by tomorrow morning, you won’t need to worry about this anymore because you will have forgotten. Either way, you’re heading in a great direction.

Is Santa real?

This is a very controversial question; debated vigorously by third graders everywhere. I believe yes, he is real, but his work hours have always been an anomaly to me and I think he should lay off the cookies.

What if I hate your blog? I’m more of a troll than a reader and I’d love to share my anger with you.

Tough situation – you are welcome to hate my blog! But….why are you reading it?  Internet trolls are a fairly new demographic. Before we be trollin’, we be strollin’. If you feel anger, I encourage you to go back to your primitive roots and take a long walk. Imagine back in caveman days when you actually had to walk over to someone else’s cave in order to degrade, troll or criticize them. Then, you had to walk ALL the way back to your cave, not even able to watch for likes or follows, ruminating all by yourself about your comment. If you wanted to reply to it, or add more degrading comments, it will likely mean another life-threatening walk back to the cave, fending off sabre-toothed tigers and Rickets.  It must have been really challenging and mentally distressing. Perhaps all the strollin’ decreased the cave-to-cave criticism and people lived a bit more peacefully. Aside from the tigers and such.

Do you think I should take a nap today or get some work done?

The fact that you are reading this question and pondering it indicates you should take a nap. Especially if the previous question applied to you; absolutely take a nap after your stroll.

I want to be a Guest Author on your website. Is that cool?

That’s very cool. All Guest Authors have their posts on the Translate Reality main page (static page) as well as their name/organization and article on the Guest of Authors drop down menu. Send me an email to inquire!

What do you enjoy most about motherhood?

Playing. Play is so important in life and often as adults, we’ve lost the ability, motivation or resources to play. Play structures are daunting. Tag is a cardiovascular risk. Public temper tantrums are not as well received.  I love having a way to reconnect to a more playful side. Pretending, dancing, crawling on the floor, laughing at spilled milk – these are wonderful moments. Motherhood is an amazing journey; it is fulfilling, exciting and so much fun when you’re ready for it. I wanted to be a parent for a very long time and now, I am a single mom to a perfectly wild toddler.  Every day that I have had my daughter in my life has been better than every other day that she wasn’t.

I really like that statue in the photo at the top of this page; the one on the right side of the dresser. Where can I purchase that cool fixture?

Look closer.

What’s your favourite sport?

Competitive breathing

Can I advertise on your website? Or partner up as an Affiliate?

Yes to both! Send me an email and we can discuss it!

What’s your favourite galaxy?

Andromeda. I just love it. Did you know that one day our galaxy, the Milky Way, and Andromeda will collide into a giant, beautifully destructive, galactic explosion and we will all become one? That’s right. We will be a new cosmic entity and have a new galactic address. We will be prime real estate in this locale of our universe. It will be awesome.

What’s the biggest number in the world?

A googolplex. That’s how many times I rewrote this FAQ page.
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~Nadia El-Gabalawy 👣
Author. ✍️ Blogger 🌪️ Single Mother by Choice 👧 YouTube Channel. Winnipeg Epoxy @winnipegepoxy

@gardenworker could you make Beethoven a pillow ca @gardenworker could you make Beethoven a pillow case? He’s asking here in this video for you. Please Grammie. 🐶
Somebody who I will not name whose name starts wit Somebody who I will not name whose name starts with B went to the vet today to get their nails clipped and chickened out big time.

Somebody might be 148 lbs of chicken little. 148 and growing…
I can’t just abandon the pens. I can’t just abandon the pens.
This is the sign 🥱😄❤️ This is the sign
🥱😄❤️
Happy new year 🎊 wishing you a 2026 of interest Happy new year 🎊 wishing you a 2026 of interesting decisions with happy outcomes ☺️✨
Oh do we ever need to get those nails cut, Beethoven 😂 🐶
Happy 9 months to my dinosaur. I love you and all Happy 9 months to my dinosaur. I love you and all of the space you take up in my life.  I have all the time for you, bu bu boo face. 🐾🦴🐶🫶❤️
My little baby is 8 years old today! She is my fav My little baby is 8 years old today!
She is my favourite person in the entire world.
She has the best sense of humour and is the cutest little being. She is brave. She is honest. She is incredibly empathetic. She teaches me things every day and she gives me something to smile about every single day. That’s one smile per day that I wouldn’t have without her. She is my main squeeze, my mini, my little tiny sparkle of joy.

I also can’t effing believe that I kept a human being alive for eight years  not eight months but eight goddamn years feeding her watering her the whole thing. Eight years guys. Yep.

Wishing for nothing more than more time with this little person. Sending her all the love on her eighth birthday and thank you from the bottom of my heart to the village that has helped me love and raise Mila. 🥰 They say it takes a village, and I am so grateful that I truly have one. You know who you are. Thank you.

8!!
Toven Mila Mom Christmas FairyTales and Tails Mani Toven Mila Mom Christmas FairyTales and Tails Manitoba Mini tree. 🎄
Cheer. I love. Well done, friends. Cheer. I love. Well done, friends.
Just one paw at a time. Just one paw at a time.
Wednesday Addams. Age 7. 🖤 Wednesday Addams. Age 7. 🖤
One minute of Beethoven’s life that you will nev One minute of Beethoven’s life that you will never get back. Thanks for watching. And yes, that is a Christmas tree ornament around his neck. My daughter put it there and I think it looks festive.
#interestinglives #6monthsold
Last weekend at the campground. Winterized. 💪 M Last weekend at the campground. Winterized. 💪
Mila and I have been camping every summer since she was one. Yes, I camped with a baby. Unsure why. 🤦🏽‍♀️ Anyway, this year we parked the Boler and bought a seasonal site. Best decision ever.
Long beautiful nights with clear starry skies.
Happy days with friends. Not just bears….but humans. It’s amazing.
Happy dirty busy tired kid. Playing all day except when in need of food or sleep. Living like it used to be.  More free. A family of parents in the campground.
Biking. Kayaking. Adopting Toven. Watching Mila and Toven explore earth.
The trees. The robins. The slow changes.
Outdoor showers.
A community. A big big happy loving family of seasonal super campers. All the love.

🌳🪾💫🍂☀️🛶🐶
Dogs are good for your health. Since Toven came in Dogs are good for your health. Since Toven came into my life, I have been outside much more, I have walked much more, and I have loved much more. He is so big and brings that much happiness. A big fuzzy clumsy ball of happiness. Here’s to six months of being on this earth, tiny Toven. ❤️🥂💞 🐶
When you’re 5 months but have Dino legs. ❤️🦖
make it unique ✨ make it unique ✨
Today is a day for suicide awareness. It is someth Today is a day for suicide awareness. It is something that needs space in conversation. We can’t be scared. Because we’re losing people to their suffering. Death from suffering happens all the time.
I had a teacher who died from his suffering and he told me one time, it is the suffering itself that wants to die. It’s not the person. The suffering is so profound that it wants to let go. Be done. Why wouldn’t it? Shouldn’t that suffering have a voice before it takes its life, along with the constellation of beauty that makes up a person?
I wrote a number of articles on my blog about death from suffering. I watched someone die in my arms. I lost friends, teachers, almost myself to death from suffering. It’s very hard to write about and speak about. But I’m doing it because if we don’t look directly at the most difficult parts of life, we won’t solve our most crucial problems. As I heard this week at the Future of Sport conference from an Elder, courage gives you the ability to make good change during the most difficult of circumstances.

A - I wish you peace every day. I remember your eyes.
J - I’m supporting the run and I still cry when I see your photo. Miss you, man.
M- you taught me a great deal in your life and your death. Thank you for your teachings.
J- I’m so sorry you had to leave. You had a community and somehow I hope you feel that connection still.

Me - I’m glad you made it, Nadia. You made a kid and a life! We’re going to stay. We’re. Going. To. Stay. We promise. Me and little me. We stayin’. 

❤️
So many people before me have fought this battle. So many people before me have fought this battle. So many people alongside me have fought this battle. 
So many people are fighting this battle.
In the future, I hope no one will fight this battle.
The mini is in grade 3! I cannot believe I made th The mini is in grade 3!
I cannot believe I made this tiny little person and now she is a full and whole human being with fashion style, incessant questions, and a hilariously wonderful personality. She’s my favourite little teammate in life.
I asked her what she was excited for her about school and she said her friends. I asked her what her favourite subject was that she would be going into and she said she was looking forward to talking to her friends in school. Then I asked her if she was going to join choir again and she said it depends what my friends do. Finally, I asked her to tell me one thing that she was excited about other than her friends, and so she went through her friends’ names one at a time.
it is safe to say her social life is primetime right now and I support that completely. #fashion #happiestpuppy #squeezytoy
What does prevention in sport look like? How can w What does prevention in sport look like? How can we protect against child maltreatment?

A child is not the canary. Sport needs a prevention-based system, not a response-based system.

In mining, they used to carry canaries underground: if toxic gas was present, the bird would die first, warning the miners. It’s a brutal system of warning.
Someone (or in this case, some child) has to suffer before others are protected. In a crisis, such as the sport crisis in Canada, we respond AND prevent. We make sure this crisis doesn’t continue occurring or occur again.

#nocanary
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