Category Archives: List

Five Things We’ll Miss About Our House

Our realtor had a photographer come to our old/current house today to take photos in preparation for our house being listed later this week and it brought home, perhaps more than any other step, that soon, the house we’ve called a home for fifteen years will likely soon no longer be ours. As excited as […]

10 Things We’ve Done To Make The Move To Our New House As Stress-free As Possible

We moved to a newer part of the same community we’ve lived in for fifteen years.  In fact, our new house is only about ten blocks from our current house (and shorter as the crow flies)! Because of this, the kids won’t have to change schools (a major consideration in our decision.) Not only that […]

This thread about working in a library went viral because it’s funny, passionate, angry and utterly lovely

https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2019/05/16/working-library-thread-viral-passionate-angry-funny-and-lovely/2/

What Are the Similarities and Differences Between Toronto Public Library and Don Cherry?

There have been a couple major media storms recently – Toronto Public Library faced a huge outcry for allowing a controversial speaker to proceed with a presentation in one of their branch meeting rooms and Sportsnet faced a huge outcry after longtime hockey icon, Don Cherry, made controversial remarks where he accused recent immigrants of […]

Secular Sunday – 78 Questions For Christians

Winners and Losers of #Elxn43

Usually after an election, there are articles and blog posts about “winners and losers”. But after last night, I feel like we have the rare situation where every party could arguably be said to be both a big winner and a big loser in some very definitive ways. Liberals Won: The election obviously Lost: But […]

Ten Things I’m Thankful For This Thanksgiving

Nothing too surprising on this list but here you go… 1. Although my mother-in-law battled a serious form of cancer for most of last year, she’s doing much better and, knock on wood, everyone else in our immediate family is doing well healthwise from Sasha who’s six years old to my dad who’s seventy years […]

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Regina Housing Prices Over Time

Shea and I are *very* lucky that we decided to keep the house we bought when we moved back to Regina in 2004 rather than sell it and buy something else when I went to library school in 2006 and came back in 2007, just as the Regina real estate market was booming. There have […]

Pareidolia (aka Five Things I Thought About Blogging About Tonight But Am Too Lazy To Flesh Out Into Full Posts)

How I went “mini-viral” after whipping off a meme telling W. Brett Wilson to be better on Twitter after he posted a “fake news” attack on Justin Trudeau (my meme was sort of unique in that the ex-Dragon ended up “Liking” himself!) How close I am to giving up cable and switching to an Android […]

Friday Fun Link – Five Subtle Ways Pro Can Tell If A Drummer’s Legit