journal features

settling into Canada again

twenty-eight years and a million words

Vancouver, 2001.05.24

Here are some familiar things I've re-discovered since I've returned to Canada:

-People wearing sneakers

-Crowded shopping malls and restaurants the smell of temperate N. American flowers

-the many 'homeless' folks on the streets

-hotdog vendors

-no little sushi bars

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

—Groucho Marx