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Secular Sunday – Gone Way Too Soon

I’ve written a lot about the many many reasons I don’t believe in God. But one of the biggest is that no matter how many “God works in mysterious ways” or “He does things to test us” excuses I hear, I can’t reconcile a merciful god that would take some of the best, most amazing, […]

¶ Posted 29 October 2023 § MemoryLane § Photo § Sad § SecularSunday ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: parents, saskatchewan

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Pace’s First Birthday (May 2008)

¶ Posted 26 October 2023 § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: camping, holiday, parents

Exercised My #skpoli #ParentalRights Today…

…to encourage my daughter to become a kind, empathetic, supportive human being. (Too bad the parents of many of the current Sask Party MLAs didn’t share similar lessons with their kids before they became regressive, reactive bullies.)

¶ Posted 10 October 2023 § News § Politics § Sasha § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, health, parents, saskatchewan

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Mom’s Lifetime SUN Membership Acceptance Speech (sometime in 2013)

I was so proud of my mom getting her lifetime membership in the Sask Union of Nurses ten years ago. Great speech and you can see where I got a lot of my personal values about supporting workers and treating others with empathy and respect.

¶ Posted 05 October 2023 § MemoryLane § Saskatchewan § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: health, history, parents

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Peet Family Reunion (Summer 1983?)

¶ Posted 28 September 2023 § MemoryLane § Photo § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: holiday, parents

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Hammy Warhol (April 2012)

¶ Posted 21 September 2023 § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § PopCulture § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute

Saturday Snap – Aunt Sandi Returns!

It was a somewhat spontaneous decision but my aunt, who already visits from BC and stays with us for about a month every spring, decided to come back and will be staying with us for a few weeks again.

¶ Posted 16 September 2023 § Pace § Photo § Sasha § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: holiday

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Keeping Them in Stitches (September 2013)

Pace ran into a tree and had to get stitches then, nearly a decade before Covid, used Skype to video chat with Grandpa and Grandma to show the war wounds…

¶ Posted 14 September 2023 § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: health, parents

Friday Fun Link – “Is This Real Life?”

Pace had four wisdom teeth removed early on Friday morning. When he got home, I was reminded of this clip – one of the original viral videos of the YouTube age:

¶ Posted 08 September 2023 § Humour § Meme § MemoryLane § Pace § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute, health, youtube

Sunset (or Sunrise?)

My last post was August 21 when I said I was going to try to get back to (roughly) daily blog posts after a summer of holidays and other distractions. Then I promptly didn’t post again for nearly two more weeks until today. Lots I could write, lots of navel-gazing about why I (still) have […]