BufferDespite some gaffs and planning issues, the Vancouver games seems to be shaping up as one filled with good energy and high spirits. LA has been there since day one and will be there to the bitter end. She is working hard (no doubt, she always does), but if you have to be working then the [...]

BufferI watched with some disgust on Sunday (Feb. 21, 2010) as enthusiastic Canadian hockey fans booed Team USA as they stepped on the ice. Now, I know this is hockey and hockey has special status here. When fans act unsporting, we tend to put it down to them just being excited hockey fans. Booing and taunting [...]

BufferFriday night we abandoned our normal Shabbat dinner plans and headed down to the Parade of Champions. EPCOR has been teaming up with the Oilers and sponsoring special events featuring Canadian Olympic athletes. Benny and I accompanied LA to meet Olympic kayaker Adam Van Koeverden . Adam is a bit of a celebrity athlete. It doesn’t [...]

BufferWe finished a box of Cheerios this morning at breakfast and I noticed a cutout on the box. It was a prepaid postcard to send a message to Canada’s Olympians. So I cut one out for each of them. Ella’s is sweet. She likes hockey (who knew?). And she likes the “ulipix” (gosh, I hope the [...]

BufferIt was Benny and Ella’s first NHL game. Ben still talks about the game we went to when the Maple Leafs beat the Swedes. The “Maple Leafs” were the Canadian junior team and the Swedes were the Swedish juniors and they were playing an exhibition match last December prior to the Ottawa World Junior Championships. But this [...]