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Are We (Finally) Coming Out of Covid? Probably Not But Also Maybe?

I haven’t written a lot about Covid lately but it’s interesting to reflect on how our attitudes and therefore, our language, changes. For instance, I have started saying “Coming out of Covid” to refer to our current situation and as a reflection of what I see in wider society – very little masking (including myself […]

¶ Posted 05 December 2023 § MemoryLane § Politics § Sad § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, economics, health, language

Secular Sunday – I Miss The Star of Bethlehem

¶ Posted 03 December 2023 § Politics § SecularSunday § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: atheism, history, xmas

Saturday Snap – Boundaries? What Boundaries?

In my Wisdom Wednesday series, I’ll eventually do a post about the difference I see between what I call “black & white” thinkers and “grey area” thinkers. (Myers-Briggs has 16 classifications. True Colors has 4. Hamology basically only has 2!) One big aspect of this difference is that are those who think there are hard […]

¶ Posted 28 October 2023 § Jobs § Library § MemoryLane § Politics § PopCulture § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, health, language, saskatchewan, science

First Snow of the Year (2023 Edition)

and obligatory link back to the archive. Who knew I’d unintentionally become a climate scientist by doing these annual “First Snow” posts?

¶ Posted 24 October 2023 § MemoryLane § Video ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: science, weather

Wisdom Wednesday – “Leadership is about going out of your comfort zone to help others.”

I was once in an interview where I was asked about my definition of leadership. I was in a terrible head space so I froze up then gave an answer that basically insulted everyone in the room! I’ll probably try a “redo” of that question in blog form some day as I have lots of […]

¶ Posted 18 October 2023 § Jobs § Politics § Wisdom Wednesday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, health, history, language, science

Alabama public library system mistakenly flags children’s book as ‘sexually explicit’ because author’s last name is Gay

You can’t make this stuff up.

¶ Posted 17 October 2023 § Censorship § Politics § PopCulture § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, education, language

Secular Sunday – History of Israel-Palestine Conflict

Everyone has an opinion on the Israel-Palestine conflict as do I. But I’ll only share two thoughts – I feel for the people on *both* sides of this conflict and I hate that its religion underpinning the conflict (and has been for four thousand years, not one hundred which is the lens most commentary takes.)

¶ Posted 15 October 2023 § Humour § Politics § SecularSunday § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, history

Exercised My #skpoli #ParentalRights Today…

…to encourage my daughter to become a kind, empathetic, supportive human being. (Too bad the parents of many of the current Sask Party MLAs didn’t share similar lessons with their kids before they became regressive, reactive bullies.)