Posts Tagged ‘ Olympics ’

This  post was originally  published on the now-retired Make & Meaning  blog on February 26th, 2010. It's not very topical now,  five months after the Olympics, but I wanted to save this post in a public forum.) It's hard for me to believe it's been nearly a month since I wrote about the Olympics coming...
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This post was originally published on the now-retired Make & Meaning blog on January 30th, 2010. It's not very topical now,  five months after the Olympics, but I wanted to save this post in a public forum. (Also, heh, look how jaded I was before the Games! Look how I totally...
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Okay, okay, the Olympics are over.* To prove to you I did stuff other than walk around town talking to strangers and screaming my head off about sports, behold: I made some stuff, too. And only some most of it is Games-related. First up, I embroidered. Yes I did. A friend of ours is due...
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I've spent much of this afternoon trying to write about the Olympics – not in the I-was-there way I've been doing, but to sum up my emotional experience of the Games. I can't do it. It's too much. But I can sort of cobble some thoughts together. Vancouver is my home. It's the home I chose...
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We headed into the mountains last weekend to catch a couple of events at Whistler.  The town of Whistler is designated a "resort municipality", which means it's a resort first and foremost. The centre of town is the Whistler Village, which is also where you catch the gondolas up the twin ski mountains of...
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UPDATE 18th February: A winner has won! Please continue to leave your thoughts about the Olympics in the comments, but note that the contest has ended. Thank you so much for participating! --- I'm driving my own self nuts today with my giddy Olympics enthusiasm. So when the delightful Scout tweeted that she's dyeing a limited...
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Where Vanoc (the Vancouver Organizing Committee) has done an utterly terrible job of engaging the people of Vancouver leading up to the Olympics, there is one thing that's made people feel included and excited: the torch relay. Last night the torch went through the University of British Columbia (some hockey events will be held...
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When Vancouver was awarded the 2010 Olympics, I was a recent immigrant to Canada. I sat in the barely half-full stadium for the live announcement, and when it came I felt my first feeling of being Canadian. I was so proud and excited. The city I’d chosen was chosen by the world. Seven years later...
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