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I could write a book about how much I love Vancouver. My mother told me on a number of occasions that Vancouver “fed the soul”. I’d travelled here on vacation as a child, a teenager (twice), and as a wife. I’d learn for myself as well as observing my husband that Vancouver did indeed “feed […]
Hemisphere Inattention Call me Mr. S., and since suffering a stroke, by which I mean the massive upheaval that has taken me cross country from Vancouver to Charlottetown, not only I have literally lost touch with the left hemisphere that is the Pacific coast, but I’ve also lost normal functioning in my cerebral left hemisphere. […]
Vancouver has evolved and is still evolving. I feel strongly that I write about my love for this city as I have evolved with it. My grandparents emigrated from China looking for a better future when my father was 16. My Grandfather faced discrimination yet he was ambitious and determined to succeed. He started a […]
People say Vancouver is a beautiful city. All the time. I know it is. In my head I am aware of this fact. But I don’t always see it. I see it all over Facebook. People and their Instagram pictures of the latest sunset or pictures of the ocean and pictures of the ocean I […]
I enjoy the great good fortune of having been born a citizen of the most beautiful and, I feel, tolerant, city in the world. Vancouver is my birth place. Several years ago, I mentioned to my mother that I felt as though there were a large group of people around me when I was born. […]