Last year, on Easter Sunday, I was on a plane flying back to #vancouver. Taxes paid. Last bit of stuff sold or donated. The physical aspect of the move was done. I physically left all that was familiar behind. By…

What a difference a year makes. This time last year I was home, finalizing loose ends and paying off my US taxes. The reality of what I had done, what I had agreed to for the next three years, was…

I don’t know how else to describe it. Moving into a house just seems like the normal thing to do. I’m rather surprised by that, and bow quickly we have all settled in, too. It was weird, but nice, driving…

We found a house! Finally. And today I’m moving this: A bit more than the four boxes and two suitcases with which I arrived in #vancouver. That all fit in the back of a coworkers Mazada, with room to spare.…

There was this tweet yesterday: Just realized tomorrow is my one year anniversary as an actual @goclio employee. — Gwynne Monahan(@econwriter5) January 31, 2013 And then this amusing Twitter exchange on “fake” v. “real” employee. So today officially marks my…

Once the weather turns “cold” in #vancouver, some friends of mine decided I needed to experience something called hot pot. Doesn’t sound like much and I actually thought it was a Canadian version of fondu. Not exactly. All of this:…

At the Canadian Customs border crossing yesterday, which, by the way, even if you are a work visa holder, you have to go through the Visitor line now, NOT the Canadian Resident line, and if anyone can point me to…

This popped into my inbox: That service has been affected by a-service-disruption. You will now be traveling on alternate transportation over part or all of your trip. To speak to any Amtrak representative about alternate travel options call us at…

I now have to make a distinction between Thanksgiving…Thanksgivings. There is Canadian Thanksgiving, in October, and US Thanksgiving at the more normal time of the fourth Thursday of November. The five weeks of November is throwing me off a bit…

It strikes me as just another three day weekend as people seem more excited about having Monday off than celebrating Thanksgiving. I did a Google search for a Canadian Thanksgiving Day parade in Vancouver, but apparently there isn’t one. This…