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Throwback Thursday – #tbt – U of R Orientation Week (Sep 2012)

Tabling at U of R for Orientation Week with a couple colleagues – promoting RPL’s many offerings and signing up people for our volunteer programs such as homework

Music Monday – Hawksley Workman Full Show, Vancouver (April 11, 2023)

Going to see Hawksley Workman later this week and it’s always a joy… Hawksley Workman Full Show – Vancouver (April 11, 2023)

Saturday Snap – Happy 55th Anniversary Mom and Dad!

I took my mom and dad for a surprise private plane ride over some of the most important places in their lives for their 50th Wedding Anniversary. But

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Read Together Regina (April 2013)

I have a lot of “favourite” RPL programs and services but the Read Together Regina program where every baby born in Regina receives a book bag, a couple

Music Monday – “I will shiver the whole night through”

Isolated vocal track of Kurt Cotain singing Leadbelly’s “Where Did You Sleep Last Night” at MTV Unplugged featuring possibly the most pained scream ever captured on tape. (Apparently

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Jeff Barber Announces Retirement After 21 Years as RPL CEO (And Some Ruminations on Diverging Career Paths)

[I’ve been thinking about this post since Jeff announced his retirement, plugging away at this post for a few weeks since his replacement was named and his final

An Amazing Eulogy

It’s a challenge to do an eulogy for imperfect people but I’ve always thought it strange how most eulogies serve to lionize the deceased in the best light

Music Monday – “Starting is easy I have found/In planting a seed, you touch the ground/But planting the seed doesn’t make it grow.”

Sad news about the passing of Canadian rocker, Sass Jordan. Back when I was a teen working in a gas station, the radio station the station’s radio was

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