Welcome to our home in the heart of the Waterloo/Kitchener area in Ontario, Canada; we like it here. The essays in this book serve as an alternative form of communication with our family out west, much like a guided missile speeding across the country with a special message. Thus, instead of writing weekly notes about the weather and our health to our families back home, informative essays about like seemed a better option. We trust that our families will appreciate these missiles, and that you will too!