Posts tagged just because

Why I Still Live in Winnipeg

Everybody who lives in Winnipeg, at one point or another, runs into that guy or girl from elsewhere who says, “You’re from Winterpeg? Why would anyone actually live there?”

And ok, I’ve had that moment, that slow chill over my heart as I stand outside waiting for a bus before dawn in February.  I feel the windchill against my face and I ask myself, “Why do I live here? Why did anyone settle here? Why didn’t the first people who came to this hunk of …