Vancouver, my old home town, had quite a couple of weeks.
So far at least, no one has been disbarred because of doping, the weather was pretty much what is was supposed to be and the excitement kept on coming.
It was wildly exciting to see the U.S. and Canada pit their best hockey players against one another and fight the fight of their lives.I figure most of the payers were born in Canada anyway.
When Canada finally won in a sudden death overtime, I had a lump in my throat for the losing team; they fought a fierce battle.
Canadians aren't pushy people and we draw our lines of privacy with fences but for two weeks the old rules went into suspension and everyone chatted, cheered and celebrated while exchanging languages and souvenir pins.
Even Oprah got into it with the mittens.
We won't return to our old ways quite yet. We got a taste of being loud and over-the-top in nationalism and it was a pretty good feeling.
It's heartening to know that countries can get together in friendship. let's keep that up.
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