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Monthly Archives January 2017

Saturday Snap – Rub-A-Dub-Dub

Posted 21 January 2017 § Family § Humour § Pace § Photo § SaturdaySnap § Travel ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – The Emperor Has No Clothes

Inauguration Day is usually a happy, exciting one but not this year…

Posted 20 January 2017 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) °

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – The Best Haircut Ever?

When I was working for the Writers Guild of Alberta, we ended up getting into a “Who has the worst (and therefore best!) ID photo?” discussion during one pub night. A young writer I knew pulled out his student ID (which, tellingly, he still carried even though he was no longer a student) and I knew […]

Posted 19 January 2017 § Humour § MemoryLane § Photo § ThrowbackThursday § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Seven Political Predictions for 2017-2020

Donald Trump will be impeached within a year. Andrew Scheer will win the PC Leadership. Jagmeet Singh will win the leadership of the Federal NDP Justin Trudeau will have a major corruption scandal. Rachel Notley will win re-election in Alberta Brad Wall will resign before the next Saskatchewan election. Michelle Obama will go back on […]

Posted 18 January 2017 § Canada § News § Politics § Saskatchewan § United States ‡ Comments (0) °

Do You Live in the Saskatoon-Meewasin Constituency? #skpoli

Ryan Meili, a guy you might have heard of on this blog once or twice before, is running to become the Saskatchewan NDP’s candidate for the Saskatoon-Meewasin riding in an upcoming by-election. The nomination meeting is next Monday night. If you live in the constituency and think that Saskatchewan’s heading in the wrong direction under Brad Wall […]

Posted 17 January 2017 § MemoryLane § News § Politics § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Music Monday – “What do you want your world to look like?/What do you want it to be?/Do you know that a wall has two sides?/And nobody is free?”

Less than a week until Donald Trump is President of the United States.  (How surreal is that sentence?) I’m not a big “trigger warning/NSFW” guy but this video might not be for everyone. Let the resistance begin… “Make America Great Again” – Pussy Riot

Posted 16 January 2017 § Censorship § News § Politics § PopCulture § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Kitchener Public Library Has Social Worker Patrons Can “Borrow”

I’ve been watching the growth of social workers in libraries with great interest. I think the first I heard of the idea was when San Francisco Public Library got one.  Now it’s spreading to other urban centres across the US and Canada – Winnipeg, Edmonton, Thunder Bay are just a sample of some Canadian libraries where this […]

Posted 16 January 2017 § Jobs § Library § LibrarySchool § Work ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: ,

Saturday Snap – Sometimes I Have A Pretty Cool Job #LibraryAsCommunityLivingRoom

Like getting to teach one of our young regulars how to play chess with the oversized chess board that my branch recently borrowed from Central library. Then after seeing how quickly he picked up the game, watching as he went on to teach a few of our other young regulars over the past couple days.

Posted 14 January 2017 § Library § Photo § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Friday Fun Link – Angry Hockey Player Crosschecks Himself

Posted 13 January 2017 § FridayFunLink § Humour § Meme § Sports § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – My Storytelling Outfit?

I was looking back and realised that the shirt and pants I wore to tell stories to some kids in a summer reading program two years ago… …are the same ones I wore this past summer. (I have no photographic evidence of what I wore for the school visit in summer 2015 but I suspect it […]

Posted 12 January 2017 § Humour § Library § Photo § ThrowbackThursday § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: