Gorgeous evening yesterday. I met up with some friends earlier for a BBQ, then went back to my apartment to let some other friends in so they could keep their bikes in my apartment instead of fighting the crowds with…
Author: Gwynne Monahan
A couple weekends ago, a friend of a friend and I went for a drive. He had driven me around downtown Vancouver, showing off Gas Town, the Olympic Torch, Stanley Park and North Vancouver, after a birthday party. He thought…
It’s summer. People are taking time off, except in Canada they say “going on holiday.” Makes me think of the clay animation chicken movie whose title escapes me. Holiday. It occurred to me that, in the States, “holiday” is generally…
It was the perfect evening for a baseball game. And man have I been baseball deprived. Well, watching in person, anyway. Playing softball has been fun, something to look forward to during the week. But it’s summer! It’s baseball season…
I didn’t pay much attention to this at first because I only heard it used by one person. And then I kept hearing it. Apparently in Canada, you don’t say “Do XYZ,” you say “Do XY Zed.” If you’re an…
On Saturday, Kits held its annual Music Fest and Street Fair. It ran from Burrard all the way down to MacDonald. I heard about it at work earlier in the week, took a break from my #bteakingbad marathon and went…
Vancouver is full of inclines. It’s mountainous, surprise surprise. And running the roads in my neighborhood, I’ve found, is easier going out as I’m going downhill, and a challenge coming back because it is up hill. To get to flat…
I’ve been a bit emotional since I got back, and it’s been bothering me. It’s nice yet depressing to be back. Why? Because it’s hard leaving a place where you are loved, appreciated and missed to return to a place…
Vancouver is full of runners, and practically all of them run wearing headphones or ear buds, listening to iPods. Me? I run in silence.
Yesterday I experienced something #freelancers generally don’t: a company outing/team building event. As a #freelancer, it was merely an outing, something fun to do with friends or just something fun to do. Haunted kayak tour down the Chicago River. An…