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An American in Kelowna – Thankful my Wife Doesn’t Buy into Black Friday

An American in Kelowna – Thankful my Wife Doesn’t Buy into Black Friday

I learned recently from a credible source that bloggers need to bow to Google Trends. Whatever the hot topics of the day and week are MUST appear somewhere in my posts. Headline or body copy. Gotta attract the spiders. A spider is a software program that travels the web locating and indexing websites for search engines. Hence the headline addressing being thankful, my wife, and (spider alert) Black Friday. Today is American Thanksgiving. Today is Thursday in Canada. Tomorrow is…

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An American in Kelowna – Boots on the Ground at the Kelowna Sunrise Rotary Shoe Bank

An American in Kelowna – Boots on the Ground at the Kelowna Sunrise Rotary Shoe Bank

www.soles4soulscanada.com info@soles4soulscanada.com One my first morning volunteering at the Kelowna Shoe Bank, I took this request from a dubious customer: “I need a pair of runners, size 10. Do you have those?” “Gee, sir, I’m not sure?” was my rookie retort. “Let’s go back to the main showroom and check out our inventory.” Before leading him into the shoe room, I had to pull shoe maven (and boss lady) Donna Moyer aside and ask her “what runners were?” She laughed…

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An American in Kelowna – Adjusting + Compromising

An American in Kelowna – Adjusting + Compromising

Life is a combination of adjustments and compromises. “You adjust when someone wants to be with you and compromise when you want to be with someone!” Who authored this quote – a fictional online character with a goofy pseudonym?! Regardless of its origin – I thought it drew an excellent parallel to how my life has changed (adjustments) for the way, way better in Kelowna and how I’ve gone about negotiating (compromises) the new realities transforming my life. Here’s a USA/Canada…

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An American in Kelowna – Totally Swamped at the Kelowna Community Food Bank

An American in Kelowna – Totally Swamped at the Kelowna Community Food Bank

Elaine was right. She had been advising me that Kelowna had a tight-knit business community where “everybody kinda knew everybody.” A few weeks after I arrived in town, I got wind of a week-long basketball camp taking place at a local high school. After communicating with the camp director, I found out a referee boot camp was simultaneously taking place. Music to my whistle-while-you-work ears. I needed to explore options and make connections. On a Wednesday night I slipped into…

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An American in Kelowna: Lots of Buzz at the Kelowna Community Food Bank

An American in Kelowna: Lots of Buzz at the Kelowna Community Food Bank

The Kelowna Community Food Bank is darn lucky to have its own version of BuzzFeed. No, it’s not some kind of copycat Internet news media company. This version is offline and goes by the name of Buzz Kline. Buzz is a true man-about-town harvester. I’d call him the MVP (Most Valuable Pickup-Artist). Five days a week, Monday thru Friday, the 63-year-old part-time employee drives the Food Bank donations truck around Kelowna, Glenmore, Rutland, and Mission for donated-food pickups. He starts…

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An American in Kelowna: Remembrance Day 2014 – The Sights and Sounds of Patriotism

An American in Kelowna: Remembrance Day 2014 – The Sights and Sounds of Patriotism

November 11, 2014 will certainly go down as a noteworthy day to remember. In the United States – it was Veteran’s Day. In Canada – Remembrance Day. Both honor the memories of fallen comrades and those who currently serve. On this bone-chilling Tuesday morning (-2 Celsius, 28-degrees Fahrenheit), Shaw Cablesystems had invited to me to be part of its broadcast team covering the Remembrance Day Program at Cenotaph Memorial Square in Kelowna’s City Park. I had recently signed up for…

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An American in Kelowna – “Top 10 Questions Asked by my American Friends and Family ”

An American in Kelowna – “Top 10 Questions Asked by my American Friends and Family ”

1.  Do you get American TV shows up there? On a recent Sunday night, Elaine and I cozied up in the living room and watched this trifecta of CBS juggernauts:  60 Minutes, Madam Secretary, and The Good Wife. Better yet, we watched them on East Coast time thanks to having Detroit’s network affiliates on our cable package. So yes, we keep up with Colbert, Stewart, The Big Bangers, The Sharks, Olivia Benson, Annalise Keating, Red Reddington, Phil Dunphy, and many,…

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An American in Kelowna – What’s in a Name?!

An American in Kelowna – What’s in a Name?!

Hello to all my American friends + family (in the lower 50) and new acquaintances in Kelowna, British Columbia and Calgary, Alberta. Everyone else around the world – Bonjour, Salut, Ni Hao, Konnichi wa, Ciao!, Guten Tag, Hola, Shalom, Mahalo, and many more. “An American in Kelowna” – is a cinematic salute to the 1951 film classic “An American in Paris” starring Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron. In this award-winning flick (voted in 1952 as Best Picture by the Academy…

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Welcome to “An American in Kelowna”

Welcome to “An American in Kelowna”

“You never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them” ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird Atticus Finch had his shoes. These are mine. Where do I start? My first 100 days in Kelowna have been like a smart kid’s report card, all A’s:  acknowledgeable, adaptable, appreciative, auspicious, and a little bit angst-ridden. Oh, Canada – you had me at hello and that first time I drove up to the Paterson Border Crossing and…

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