Shea and I got to Niagara Falls a couple times during the year I spent in Ontario completing my MLIS. This was during our summer visit…
There’s a popular story making the rounds on social media to help people in positions of privilege understand exactly what the concept means and what it affords them. The essence of the story is that a high school teacher sets a recycling bin at the front of the room then gives his students wads of paper […]
How often can Throwback Thursday be a clip from the day before and also last year? That’s why my dad’s favourite joke every New Year’s Eve is some variation of “See you next year!” 😉 Here’s Pace and his cousins partying it up last night year…
1. What did you do this year that you’d never done before? I joined the bargaining committee for CUPE Local 1594 at my library. I wasn’t sure what to expect but it was a really interesting experience – getting insight into how both the union and management approach various issues in the workplace as well […]
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Posted 31 December 2014
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January – “So why are both kids still up (and apparently making a break for it???)” February – “SaskTel was out to Regent Place a couple weeks ago to shoot a storytime for their video magazine.” March – “I sometimes think the only reason we have kids is to teach them cute tricks.” April – […]
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Posted 30 December 2014
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At our house, Santa doesn’t wrap the presents. This provides a few main advantages – makes things quicker to get set-up if you haven’t pre-wrapped the gifts, prevents awkward “Why does Santa use the same wrapping paper as mommy and daddy?” questions, and allows the kids to get an immediate jolt when they first glimpse […]
Someone on my Facebook posted a rather profound article about how the arguments between “Merry Christmas” and “Happy Holidays” are misguided. The article points out the fact that our Christmas traditions have well-documented roots back to a pagan time, long ago, when people came together for a festival during the longest night of the year […]
Perhaps unsurprisingly, noted curmudgeonly TV host, David Letterman hates Christmas music. But each year, he makes an exception for Darlene Love’s version of “It’s Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)” which he featured on his talk show with a four piece backing band in his earliest years… …and which has grown over the years to a […]
This is a great article on an important topic but my short answer is this: “Beyond limits set by the existing laws of the land, no one should have right to tell anyone else what they can read/watch/listen to. Period.” To expand on this a bit… I’ve seen patrons watching things that are a lot […]
