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 […]
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Monthly Archives December 2020
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 […]
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 […]
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…
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
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 […]
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 […]
@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…
The Beatles: Get Back: A Sneak Peek From Peter Jackson
This looks amazing and I am excite!