What would you like for dinner the night that you arrive home?

Thanks for asking, Bob.  I guess it depends on the weather.  It will be July 31, and Toronto may still be in the thick of a heat wave.  So maybe one of your delicious Greek Salads, with crusty bread.  Or, perhaps Caprese Salad, also with crusty bread.  Or Vegetarian Nachos with Olives and Jalapenos at Paupers.  Or grilled hamburgers with a thick slice of melting cheddar, lettuce, tomato and mayonnaise.  Really, anything at all would suit me just fine.

The Last Two "Summing Up" Questions. (Unless someone posts another one...)

These last two questions are probably the hardest ones to answer:

1)  Your blog provides instructive and entertaining insights into the life you constructed for yourself during the past year by introducing many of the people, places and events that affected you in good and bad ways--along with some wonderful photographs. As you look back over the year, do you feel that your experiences have changed you in any significant ways? Are there things that you now value less or more, for example, or goals that have been fulfilled, frustrated or affirmed? --bobalone

2)  How do you feel that you have been "changed" by this experience? I imagine there are subtle ways in which you have allowed yourself to become, at a deeper level, more of who you in fact are.  And will you be able to nourish those parts of yourself back in Toronto? I am hoping the answer to the latter is yes! --aa_bronson

( Introspective Answer )