Pace saying good-bye to Cuba and the Dominican Republic at the end of our holidays, four years apart…
Remember how, in the old days, you’d try to maximize your $14.99 (or $19.99 or more!) when buying a cassette or CD? To do this, instead of blowing your cash on an album by a single artist that might only have 1-2 songs you like, you’d pick an album with a title like “Biggest Chart Toppers […]
Saturday Night Live is having their 40th Anniversary Special tonight. For some people, it’s Python or SCTV or Richard Pryor. But for me (and most of my friends), SNL probably played more of a role in developing our sense of humour than any other single source. Some great treasures in the audition tapes including perhaps SNL’s […]
Some people go every year, some people go whenever they can afford it, and some people will never go to one, thinking they’re fake, inauthentic holidays. Shea and I are in that middle category – though we don’t go every year [edit: I lied – as of January 2020, we’ve been five years in a […]
Feeling nostalgic today… Myself with the board of the Saskatchewan Publishers Group in 1999… Me with the board of the Saskatchewan Book Awards circa 1999-2000 Various co-workers from the offices shared by the Sask Writers Guild, Sask Publishers Group and Sask Library Association… Me with the board of the Writers Guild of Alberta… […]
When I was in England on exchange in 1995, I would sometimes go to the college library and read the UK’s national papers. I still remember looking at the Travel section of The Weekend Times and seeing an ad for a “Cross-Canada Adventure”. After landing in the maritimes, you would take a coach through Quebec and […]
So tonight was fairly routine at the start… Pace has his snack while watching videos on the iPad. Shea reads Sasha a story and then nurses her before putting her to bed. Sasha immediately starts crying in her crib as she’s been doing lately. I go check on Sasha and she’s got a wet diaper […]
Pace likes to watch non-stop YouTube clips about video games – Minecraft, Halo, etc. etc. and it’s not really my thing. So the other night, looking for some common ground when we decided to watch some YouTube together, he suggested “Science Videos” (cool that he thinks of that as a place where we connect!) Anyhow, […]
Isn’t it funny how memory works?
