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Category Archives: MemoryLane

Wisdom Wednesday – April Fool?

This is a post that’s five (or maybe even ten or fifteen?) years in the making. When I started at RPL fifteen years ago, I was an extremely unique position in the HR Unit called “Organization Development Specialist” with responsibility for staff training and development, change management initiatives, working on the nebulous “organizational culture” among […]

Posted 02 April 2025 § Humour § Jobs § Library § Wisdom Wednesday § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Saturday Snap – Modern Day Prom Jacket

I posted on Thursday about my high school prom. As we prepare for Pace’s this year (uhm, buy your flowers and plants here!) I sometimes wish I could go back and tell that grey-suited, clean-cut young man that the future was going to be a bit more outlandish!

Posted 29 March 2025 § Humour § Pace § Photo § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – From Proms to Nursing Home Moms

Real “circle of life” shit that the classmate I did the Grand March with during our high school graduation (not my prom date – this was when we marched in alphabetically by name which is why there are two guys – Hammond & Hanley – with one girl – Kalk – since guys outnumbered girls […]

Posted 27 March 2025 § Photo § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (1) °

Music Monday – “My old south London home.”

It’s been a quiet couple weeks with us on holidays and then me busy with a conference for most of last week but time to get back to blogging.  And I’ve got a perfect video for Music Monday falling on St. Patrick’s Day – a montage of pics I made against two Celtic-Canadian songs from […]

Posted 17 March 2025 § LibrarySchool § MusicMonday § Photo ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Isla Mujeres Ferry (February 2020)

Shea and I have done three or four day trips to Isla Mujeres when we’ve stayed at all-inclusives in the Cancun area over the years. And every time, we come home and say “That was the best part of our trip – we should stay there for our whole trip sometime!” Isla Mujeres is a […]

Posted 27 February 2025 § Pace § Photo § Sasha § Shea § ThrowbackThursday § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Friday Fun Link – Isla Contoy

We’ll be visiting Isla Mujeres from March 2 to 9 and this will be the first time we haven’t stayed at an all-inclusive in all our various trips to Mexico/Cuba/Dominican Republic over the past 25 years. One thing we might do is take a boat trip to an ecologically protected, undeveloped island…

Posted 21 February 2025 § Family § FridayFunLink § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Snowsuit Struggles (Feb 2015)

Posted 20 February 2025 § Photo § Sasha § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Bring It On, USA! (October 2013)

Actually, please don’t. Let’s solve our (your) issues through diplomacy and negotiation, not war and violence.

Posted 13 February 2025 § Canada § Family § Pace § Photo § ThrowbackThursday § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

“Morning Ralph, Morning Sam.”

So I’m in bargaining this week for our CUPE local and all I can think of is old cartoons…

Posted 11 February 2025 § Humour § Meme § PopCulture § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Saturday Snap – Thank You Card

I’ve had colleagues who say that when you work for a public library, you really work for your colleagues, your clients and your community. Never feels more true when I come into find a giant thank-you card signed by a bunch of the kids I interacted with at a recent school visit.

Posted 08 February 2025 § Library § Photo § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,