In the winter of 2007 my niece was flown to sick kids hospital in Toronto after blood was found pooling on the surface of her brain.

I flew from Vancouver Island to Toronto and stayed there for a few weeks.

The blood slowly reabsorbed so that ultimately she was fine,

but the event became the impetus for my move shortly after, in the summer of 2008, from a small town on Vancouver Island to Kensington Market in downtown Toronto.