We don't have chipmunks in my part of the country. I have seen chipmunks only twice in my life -- once in Banff and once in Olympic National Park in Washington. You bet I'm going to take pictures of them.
Ferries. I live on an island. Ferries are an extremely mundane part of everyday life around here. But tourists from landlocked places find them absolutely fascinating. In my parents house, you could see the ferries from the kitchen window. One visitor we had even asked for a copy…Â
I was having a lot of vision problems. I couldn't read the city newspaper. I couldn't read a library book without a magnifying glass. When working on a computer, I had to do screen magnification up to 200 percent. I went to an eye doctor, who said, "You're over 40, right? That's normal…Â
I frequently have people tell me that they could never live in Canada because it's so cold. They don't believe me when I tell them that unless you go to the far north, we have summer just like everyone else, and you can actually get sunburned here.
Therapy. I went to therapy. It changed my life for the better. I was fortunate to find a clinic that had a sliding scale based on income. At the time, I paid $5 a week to see a counsellor. That $5-a-week counsellor helped me a lot.
We don't have any of those stores. We don't have Zellers or Kmart or Woodwards or Sears or Eatons. I wish we had a choice of department store other than Walmart.
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