Chicagoan in Montreal

There is an interesting contrast between the vacations people take here in Montreal and in the US. Back home, a good number of the people I ...

There is one thing outside of my family and friends that I am most proud of (not the stadium above, but it's up there). This is being fr...

Here is what I hope is a welcome break from my soap box posts regarding the current administration. When I would visit here before we moved ...

This is the picture that I had wanted to post earlier. It was taken last summer after the remnant of Hurricane Ivan passed overhead. I took ...

Watching CNN this morning and learning more about the attacks made me realize a few other things. During my last visit to London, I stayed i...

Although I was not planning on it, my friend Jason suggested I share my thoughts, observations, or whathaveyou regarding the recent bombings...

Sorry, but this is a link to test a few things. First my friend John (whose website you can reach if you click his name) suggested I post s...

Whereas May 1st and October 1st are the traditional moving days in Chicago, in Montreal it is July 1st. There are a couple benefits to this....

There is a difference between how summer is viewed here and back in Chicago. Here there is an urgency that once the weather turns nice it mu...

I had an interesting thought the other day. Looking back on the whole reason for going to war, it seems a lot like a common plot for a holly...

Although the stated purpose of this blog was initially to discuss differences between Montreal and Chicago, it now seems to be drifting a bi...

Another aspect of life here that really struck me is the lack of convenient store hours. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but it see...