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Music Monday – “When I was a child I cried/Until my needs were satisfied/My needs have grown up pound for pound/I’ll be at peace when they let me down”

Two legends together. Interesting fact – my montage of photos from the day Pace was born, set to a Loretta Lynn song, is my most viewed YouTube video of all-time with 36,000+ views as I type this. Shea and I were also fortunate to get to see Willie Nelson live in concert while we lived […]

¶ Posted 29 March 2016 § MusicMonday § Shea § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: history, music, ontario

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Easter Egg Hunt (March 23, 2008)

If I remember correctly. we put Cheerios in some plastic eggs for Pace’s first Easter when he wasn’t quite one year old…

¶ Posted 24 March 2016 § Humour § Pace § Photo § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute, food, holiday

Music Monday – “Right here/Right now/Watching the world wake up from history”

Barack Obama made history today as the first US President to visit Cuba in 60 years. I was trying to think of a good song to post to commemorate this moment – perhaps a popular Cuban song or a recent hit by a Cuban-American rap/dance artist? But then I remembered this song about the fall […]

¶ Posted 21 March 2016 § MusicMonday § News § Politics § United States § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, google, history, holiday

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Green Beer, Green Milk? (March 2014)

This is how Pace and I enjoyed St. Patrick’s Day in our respective ways a couple years ago…

¶ Posted 17 March 2016 § Humour § Pace § Photo § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute, food, holiday

Saturday Snap – Happy Anniversary to Me!

I had to work this weekend so Shea took the kids to spend a couple days enjoying the beautiful +13 weather at her parents’ house in Weyburn. I can’t decide if getting to go to the Bushwakkers for supper tonight (which we rarely get to since it’s a pub with a “no kids allowed” policy) […]

¶ Posted 05 March 2016 § Family § Humour § Photo § Saskatchewan § SaturdaySnap § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: holiday

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – World’s Biggest Tomato (April 2006)

When we lived in Ontario in 2006, Shea and I tried to get away to visit different nearby areas as often as we could. There’s been a lot of attention lately on French’s decision to start making ketchup in Canada using tomatoes from the Leamington, ON area after Heinz left the community high and dry in 2014. […]

¶ Posted 03 March 2016 § Canada § Family § LibrarySchool § Photo § ThrowbackThursday § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, ontario, travel

FTRW 2016 – Day Seven – Saturday Snap – Freedom to Read in Cuba?

Below are a couple photos I took in Havana during our 2011 trip to Cuba. This was a street vendor stall selling books (which is good!) but most here (and in our hotel’s gift shop or anywhere else we found books) were heavily propagandistic (bad!). Cuba isn’t commercialized with billboards selling blue jeans and soda but in its […]

¶ Posted 27 February 2016 § Canada § Censorship § Library § Photo § PopCulture § SaturdaySnap § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: allinclusive, book, education, freedomtoreadweek, history, language, saskatchewan

FTRW 2016 – Day Five – Throwback Thursday – #tbt – My #FTRW Interview on “Book Chick” Radio Show, CJTR, #yqr (Feb 2007)

I posted when this interview was being aired live for those wanting to tune in but I’ve never posted the archival copy of this interview as far as I can remember. It was a really fun interview with one of my former Sask Publishers Group colleagues and I got say “nut sack” on the radio – […]