Cryptic title, eh? The Museum of Vancouver's had a craft exhibit on for the last few months, and in January they held an epic night of crafting to go along with it. It was such a successful and pop
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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
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Kids, my city is a giant party. We went Downtown yesterday afternoon to see what Vancouver's like during the Olympics. (We live in the city of Vancouver, but about a half-hour from Downtown by bus
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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 f
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How much do I love this? So much that I'm going to try to swing by to see it this afternoon, at the Davie Community Garden at Davie St. and Burrard St. downtown. More about Howie Woo's awesome
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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 Can
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I was in a cranky, cranky mood yesterday when we went downtown to meet some friends to ride the new RAV (aka Canada) Line* for free on its opening day. I had PMS, I'd forgotten to eat lunch while writ
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I went to a meeting in Gastown today. I love being in busy parts of the city during the day. It makes me happy. Also, all the stimulation makes my brain spin faster, which overall leads to more and be
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For the second day in a row, I woke up this morning to discover I'm 33 years old. Yesterday, my first day at 33, I woke up at 6AM like a kid on Christmas morning if that kid happens to celebrate Ch
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Casa Gelato, originally uploaded by kpwerker. La Casa Gelato. 218 flavours of gelato in a big pink building. This afternoon I ate mocha gelato out of a handmade waffle cone and watched the trai
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