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Saturday Snap – Pace Goes Off The Diving Board

Posted 10 September 2011 § MemoryLane § SaturdaySnap § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

“Straight, Not Narrow”: Has Calgary Quietly Become The Most Progressive City in Canada?

Calgary had their annual Pride Parade this past weekend.  Pride Parades are commonly held in major cities throughout Canada but Calgary’s recent parade set two important milestones – the first time the mayor of the city has appeared in the parade as new mayor, Naheed Nenshi, served as the parade marshall. The Calgary Flames also […]

Posted 06 September 2011 § MemoryLane § Politics § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Saturday Snap – Bad Parenting Example #289

Letting your child use an upturned picnic table as a playhouse when camping… 😉

Posted 03 September 2011 § MemoryLane § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Friday Fun Link – Minus.com

Quinn Dupont was one my classmates in library school who was a constant source of what was the latest and greatest in the technology world. That continues to this day.  He recently posted Minus.com on his Facebook feed – a new site to simplify sharing of files that allows a huge amount of storage and […]

Posted 02 September 2011 § FridayFunLink § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Sad Sunday – Michael Layton & Sarah Campbell’s Eulogies For Their Father

We were away camping this weekend so I just got to see Jack Layton’s funeral tonight when we got home. It’s hard to choose a saddest or most touching moment from Jack Layton’s funeral on Saturday.  But the videos below were definitely two of them. As documented on this blog, I’ve had the honour of […]

Posted 28 August 2011 § Politics § Sad § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Saturday Snap – Katepwa Sunset

Why do I live in the city instead of at the lake?  I don’t know of a more relaxing place on earth…

Posted 27 August 2011 § MemoryLane § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Lyric Check Needed – Stat!

Pace has become quite the little music fan recently, often breaking into “songs” of his own creation or snippets of songs he’s heard on the radio or at daycare or wherever. Still, Shea and I had our jaws drop when he recently started singing “If you can’t make her say oooh-oooh-oooh, make her say ahh-ahh-ahh!” […]

Posted 21 August 2011 § MemoryLane § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Saturday Snap – “Come listen to a story/’Bout a man named Jed”

I’ve written before about my conflicted feelings towards the oil industry.  In essence, it boils down to knowing how much of Saskatchewan’s current prosperity is directly linked to “black gold” versus also knowing the environmental, human, social and other impacts the oil industry has on society. Those feelings could get a lot more conflicted soon. […]

Posted 20 August 2011 § SaturdaySnap § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Saturday Snap – Aloha!

In 2002, Shea and I joined my parents for two weeks in Kailua, Oahu.  We’ve just confirmed that we’ll be going again in January 2012 which will be the tenth anniversary of our first trip! This time, Shea and I decided we’d like to see something different so we’re going to spend one week in […]

Posted 06 August 2011 § MemoryLane § SaturdaySnap § Video ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , , , ,

“Snakes on a Pace”

Took today off to go to the Queen City Ex with Shea and Pace. We just got home after nearly 10 hours (!) at the fair. Pace managed to stay awake in the car home but fell asleep one nanosecond after we put him in bed. His mom and dad won’t be far behind him. […]

Posted 04 August 2011 § MemoryLane ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,