By Dawn Storey (WINDSOR, ON) – I’m rather ashamed, today, to admit that for the first thirty-some years of my life, I proudly wore the label of “apolitical.” Apart from a sweeping and flippant belief that one had to be either a liar or a crook (or perhaps both) to become a politician, I quite [...]
By Dawn Storey (WINDSOR, ON) – The more people I meet in Windsor, the more tweets I read with a hashtag of #windsor or #yqg, the more comments I see on internet articles or Facebook posts about Windsor, the more I get to know the perspective and attitude of Windsorites in general. To tell you [...]
By Dawn Storey (WINDSOR, ON) – Last year around this time, anticipating a trip to Italy to discover my roots, I started trying to learn to speak Italian. My timing couldn’t have been much worse! In addition to my full time job, the majority of my focus in 2011 was on planning and executing our [...]
By Dawn Storey (WINDSOR, ON) – Not only are my husband and I newcomers to Windsor, we are also newbies to casinos. And when I say newbies, I mean complete newbies… as in, neither of us has ever set foot into a casino before. That is, until this weekend! A couple of months ago one [...]
By Dawn Storey (WINDSOR, ON) – One of the disadvantages of living in a city for an extended period of time is that things can very easily become routine, predictable, and (dare I say) boring. You see the same faces on your daily commute, you eat at the same restaurants, you shop in the same [...]
By Dawn Storey (WINDSOR, ON) – The other day I was taking care of the usual semi-monthly chore of posting receipts, paying bills, and organizing our household finances, when suddenly it hit me: This doesn’t feel like a chore anymore. Granted, I wouldn’t go so far as to say it was a delight (I’m not [...]
By Dawn Storey (WINDSOR, ON) – When we landed in Victoria after our week-long house-hunting trip in Windsor last September, my parents greeted us at the airport with a clipping from Maclean’s Magazine. The article they’d saved for us – “The Most Livable City?” – was about real estate in Vancouver, BC and had just [...]
By Dawn Storey (WINDSOR, ON) – When you visit a new place, your senses are assailed by unfamiliar sights, sounds, and smells, and your brain immediately begins to form first impressions and compare these new experiences to that which is familiar. For me, coming to Windsor didn’t involve leaving my country, learning a new language, [...]
By Dawn Storey (WINDSOR, ON) – Take a second, will you, and imagine that you and I are meeting for the first time. You, a Windsorite, introduce yourself to me. I in turn introduce myself to you, and then I tell you that I just moved to Windsor from Victoria, BC. What’s the very first [...]
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