Pace needs to work on his game face but he's young – it'll come. (And no, that's not spilled beer on my leg. And yes, it's baby drool.) On a related note, we went to see Brent Butt at Casino Regina for my staff Christmas party Friday night. I have a completely unprovable theory that […]
Pace has a new cousin! Almost six months to the day after he was born, Pace's cousin, Dennon Robert Thompson arrived in very similar circumstances – breech position requiring an unplanned c-section. It was a weird sense of deja vu for me all day – finding my way to the labour and delivery unit, sitting […]
“The Canadian police announced that it will stop targeting people who download copyrighted material for personal use. Their priority will be to focus on organized crime and copyright theft that affects the health and safety of consumers instead of the cash flow of large corporations.“My French isn't good enough to know if a Le Devoir […]
As a follow-up to yesterday's post about Pace's first black eye, here's a great song about a parent's ever-present fear about their child coming into harm. If I remember correctly, Gord Downie wrote it after watching a young woman barrel racing at the Calgary Stampede and wondered how he would feel about his own daughter […]
It had to happen sometime and the first of many to come, I'm sure. (I'm just glad it was his mom who let him do the face plant into his exersaucer instead of me! But then again, is it wrong that I took a photo of it?)
When my boss came to Southeast Regional Library as their new director fifteen years ago, one of the first things he did was go out and work an actual front-line shift in a few of our branches to get a sense of the workload, what was effective in how our system operated, what wasn't and […]
Top 13 Money Drains for College Students1. Starbucks (nope)2. World of Warcraft (nope)3. Credit Cards (nope but that student line of credit kills!)4. New computer (I already had a decent laptop but had to buy a new printer and a few other gadgety accessories – still, not too bad)5. Software (definitely not – it's a […]
Five Things Grandpa Peet and I Talked About During Pretty Much Every Conversation We Ever Had1. The Stock Market2. The Price of Oil 3. The Blue Jays4. The Weather5. The Stock MarketI was honoured to give the eulogy at Grandpa Peet’s funeral this year, him having passed away only a week after Pace was born. […]
Saskabush is like Saskatchewan's answer to The Onion (but with a much more random yet much less frequent publishing schedule.) Not sure how the humour translates outside the borders of the flatlands but as someone who lives here, I find the writer laugh-out-loud funny on a frequent basis. So, in light of the recent provincial […]
Lazy Library is a website dedicated to recommending books that are no longer than 200 pages, on any subject, to help those that find reading to be “time consuming”.Like Michelle, I think it's not as dumb of an idea as it sounds at first and might have some utility in today's culture. (I had a […]
