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Monthly Archives July 2013

It’s A Small World (Or At Least A Small Province)

So after yesterday’s post, I got a comment from a friend that he was related to the Peets who are from the same area as my mom’s family (Mom’s maiden name is Peet). After a few messages back and forth, we determined that the connection was that my mom’s cousin was married to his stepfather’s […]

¶ Posted 07 July 2013 § Family § Library § MemoryLane § Pace § Saskatchewan § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: saskatchewan

Saturday Snap – Kenosee Lake Family Reunion

¶ Posted 06 July 2013 § Family § MemoryLane § Pace § Sasha § Saskatchewan § SaturdaySnap § Shea ‡ Comments (2) °

Friday Fun Link – Sasha’s Big Smile

We’re at a family reunion this weekend so blog posts will either not happen or be fairly basic. Like this…

¶ Posted 05 July 2013 § Baby § FridayFunLink § Photo § Sasha ‡ Comments (0) °

From The “News That Does Not Surprise Me” Department…

“Lifetime of Reading Slows Cognitive Decline” “Habitual participation in cognitively stimulating pursuits over a lifetime might substantially increase the efficiency of some cognitive systems,” writes a research team led by neuropsychologist Robert Wilson of Chicago’s Rush University Medical Center. This efficiency apparently counteracts the often-devastating effects of nervous system diseases. Wilson and his colleagues describe a study […]

¶ Posted 04 July 2013 § Library § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, health, language

Who Do Our Kids Look More Like?

Recently rediscovered My Heritage’s “Look-A-Like” app where you can upload photos of different people and it will tell you who looks more like whom. (Usually you’d upload pictures of two parents and their child to see who the child resembles the most but we also experimented with comparing my aunt to my sister and I […]

¶ Posted 03 July 2013 § Family § Meme § Pace § Sasha § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: parents

Misbehave With Me

A great commencement address to a group of baby librarians by Dorothea Salo… Now, graduates, I want you to remember that misbehaving comes in all sizes. I’ve been talking about great big misbehaviors, but depending on what the policies are like where you work, giving a homeless person a library card, waiving a fine for […]

¶ Posted 02 July 2013 § Censorship § Internet § Library § LibrarySchool § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: philosophy

Music Monday – “I like a pop song sober in the afternoon/I like a chord hanging down when I’m in the nude”

What better songs to post for Canada Day than a couple tracks from a new Canadian super group called “The Mounties”? The group features Hawksley Workman, one of my favourite Canadian musicians of all-time and the video for their first single contains a few prominent shots of the Canadian flag: “Headphones” – The Mounties …while their […]