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Monthly Archives December 2020

2020 End of the Year Memes – Covid Pandemic Spreads Worldwide! Covid Quarantine! Covid “Dimmer Switch” Societal Reopening! Covid Vaccine As Christmas Gift to The World!

1. What did you do this year that you’d never done before? I had been on the board of Coteau Books, a well-established small Canadian literary press that had been in existence for almost 45 years, for nearly a decade myself. Unfortunately, the publisher had been seen a variety of issues compounding over the past […]

¶ Posted 31 December 2020 § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) °

First Lines From My First Blog Post of Every Month of 2020

January – “Happy New Month/Year/Decade (and I already screwed up the time stamp of a scheduled post so this didn’t go up right at 12:01am like I hoped but instead, was going to wait until January 12 to show up – oops!)” February – “Walked Sasha over to her school’s Family Literacy Night earlier this […]

¶ Posted 30 December 2020 § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) °

RIP Luke Letlow (Maybe?)

It’s an interesting question about how we should feel when someone makes bad, ill-informed choices that lead directly to their death. *Of course* every death is sad. *But maybe* it’s not quite as sad when someone willingly makes a conscious choice to avoid even the most basic Covid precautions and then ends up dying of […]

¶ Posted 29 December 2020 § News § Politics § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, education, health, science

Google’s 2020 Year in Search (And A Couple Other Year-in-Review Compilations Too)

And since it was such a memorable year, I’ll add a couple other “year in review” compilations… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjbLY46Vaq8

¶ Posted 29 December 2020 § Humour § Internet § MemoryLane § News § Politics § PopCulture § Randomness § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, health, history, unitedstates

Music Monday – “It’s been a hell of a year/How did you see/Who I was and who I was gonna be/I could’ve been right was probably wrong/So many nights wishing I could go home”

This is a song about the end of a relationship but man, that title is perfect for the final “Music Monday” of 2021… “Hell of a Year” – Parker McCollum

¶ Posted 28 December 2020 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) °

Secular Sunday – Covid Nativity

¶ Posted 27 December 2020 § Humour § SecularSunday § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, health, holiday

The Covid Continuum

As Saskatchewan adds more restrictions, mostly on retailers in the post-Christmas period, I’m thinking a lot about how everyone is somewhere different on what I think of as the “Covid Continuum”. I’d say the range for this starts with anyone who’s absolutely minimized their outings since March – maybe only leaving the house to buy […]

¶ Posted 26 December 2020 § Family § List § Photo § Sad § Saskatchewan § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, health, language, parents, saskatchewan

A Visual Representation of 2020 for Christmas?

Sasha tested out her new Christmas makeup on me and I realised this process made a good analogy for 2020 in general… * it was unexpected, sort of weird and occasionally scary * it looks like somebody got beat up (or possibly has a communicable disease) * I had my eyes closed for most of […]

¶ Posted 25 December 2020 § Family § Humour § List § Sasha § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute, health, holiday, xmas

@officialRPL ‘Twas The Night Before Christmas… #yqr

RPL’s Marketing Unit has created some great content recently including this timely video featuring a number of well-known Regina names…

¶ Posted 24 December 2020 § Library § News § Politics § PopCulture § Saskatchewan § Video § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, cool, holiday, language, xmas