Hearing snippets of conversations in different languages on the bus, walking around Vancouver, reminds me of my first two instances of hearing a foreign language in a non-academic environment.

I’ve had a little trouble wrapping my head around this concept of “mandatory health insurance.” While I get the idea, and after first hand experience of the mess of American health care, I’ve been curious how “mandatory health care” works.…

The book chronicles the music industry from about the 50s on through the Wrecking Crew, which played on an awful lot of popular, famous, award-winning songs. A theme throughout the book is change. Perhaps adaptation is a better word.

Yep. There are no turnstiles to board the trains. I found this rather peculiar at first. Still do. There’s no incentive to purchase a ticket, except to avoid harsh penalties if you get caught by a Translink cop. Translink trains…

This lack of skyline thing has been nagging at me, like a splinter in mind. I see mountains every morning on the train to work. Some days they look beautiful, majestic. Others they look menacing, threatening. And other days, just…

Day started off like the previous two or three. Woke up at 2:30am, rolled over and eventually fell back asleep until 5. Checked a message from Dad and opted to go back to sleep. Perhaps that was the start. Everything…

I was awake, again, at 2:30 this morning, and thankfully, again, able to fall back asleep until 5am. I can tell I’m stressed. I’m anxious, panicky. Not quite paralyzed with fear but it’s a little harder to keep putting one…

Yep. All packed. It’s been quite the emotional roller coaster the past three weeks. Lots of emotions to sort through, along with stuff, and some tough decisions. Experiencing decision fatigue. This is hard, on many levels, and it’s hard to…