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Monthly Archives January 2015

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – A Life In Books

Feeling nostalgic today… Myself with the board of the Saskatchewan Publishers Group in 1999… Me with the board of the Saskatchewan Book Awards circa 1999-2000   Various co-workers from the offices shared by the Sask Writers Guild, Sask Publishers Group and Sask Library Association…   Me with the board of the Writers Guild of Alberta… […]

Posted 29 January 2015 § MemoryLane § Photo § ThrowbackThursday § Work ‡ Comments (0) °

In One Month, I Hope To Have A Similar Clip of Pace and/or Sasha…

I keep watching this clip with them over and over to make sure their moves are ready! 😉

Posted 28 January 2015 § Family § Humour § Pace § Sasha § Travel § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Regina’s Status As Fly-Over Country Confirmed #yqrcc #yqr

When I was in England on exchange in 1995, I would sometimes go to the college library and read the UK’s national papers. I still remember looking at the Travel section of The Weekend Times and seeing an ad for a “Cross-Canada Adventure”.  After landing in the maritimes, you would take a coach through Quebec and […]

Posted 27 January 2015 § Censorship § Humour § MemoryLane § News § Politics § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

How Secular Parenting Stacks Up

Pretty well actually… I could basically cut & paste the whole article as it’s all relevant but here are a few of my favourite sections… The results of such secular child-rearing are encouraging. Studies have found that secular teenagers are far less likely to care what the “cool kids” think, or express a need to […]

Posted 25 January 2015 § Family § SecularSunday § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Saturday Snap – A Couple of Pinheads

Posted 24 January 2015 § Humour § Pace § Photo § Sasha ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – AllTheMinutes (Twitter Clock)

You may want to turn your Mute button but otherwise, the site AllTheMinutes.com is pretty cool. It shows a clock comprised of live tweets (one per second) from people around the world who have mentioned the current time. Great insight into the boring everyday lives of humanity (at least those who use Twitter!)

Posted 23 January 2015 § FridayFunLink § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – 1987 RPL Newsletter

A co-worker retired this week and brought a copy of the internal staff newsletter that featured her on its cover back in 1987!

Posted 22 January 2015 § Library § Photo § ThrowbackThursday § Work ‡ Comments (0) °

When You Have a Trip Planned…

…it’s funny to consider the videos you find yourself watching for any sort of preview of what your own experience will be like! 😉

Posted 21 January 2015 § Family § Travel § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

The Story of a Bedtime

So tonight was fairly routine at the start… Pace has his snack while watching videos on the iPad. Shea reads Sasha a story and then nurses her before putting her to bed. Sasha immediately starts crying in her crib as she’s been doing lately. I go check on Sasha and she’s got a wet diaper […]

Posted 20 January 2015 § Baby § Family § Humour § MemoryLane § Pace § Politics § Sasha § Shea § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Music Monday – “We got the kinda love/A blind man can see” (American Idol’s Best Audition So Far This Season)

American Idol is one of my guilty pleasures.  It’s fascinating how they put together the show – especially the audition rounds to add narratives to what is otherwise a series of very similar clips.  For example, they’ll show a montage of one judge being mean to every contestant only to cut to them being blown […]

Posted 19 January 2015 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Sad § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,