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Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Mom’s Lifetime SUN Membership Acceptance Speech (sometime in 2013)

I was so proud of my mom getting her lifetime membership in the Sask Union of Nurses ten years ago. Great speech and you can see where I got a lot of my personal values about supporting workers and treating others with empathy and respect.

¶ Posted 05 October 2023 § Family § Saskatchewan § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: health, history, parents

Wisdom Wednesday – “What If You’re Both Right?”

This was a lesson I learned from my first manager at RPL (who also happened to be the Manager of HR so had tons of great insights into managing people, dealing with conflict and so on.) The context was that I was in a very unique role as Organizational Development Specialist, responsible for all staff […]

¶ Posted 04 October 2023 § Jobs § Library § Wisdom Wednesday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, orgdevl

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Peet Family Reunion (Summer 1983?)

¶ Posted 28 September 2023 § Family § Photo § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: holiday, parents

Wisdom Wednesday – Actions, Not Words

I’ve been thinking about actions vs. words a lot lately. One of the things that really brought home this important distinction was when I had to leave the Regent Place branch of Regina Public Library after eight years as Branch Head following a re-org of supervisors and managers. It was a pretty emotional time and […]

¶ Posted 27 September 2023 § Jobs § Library § News § Politics § Wisdom § Wisdom Wednesday ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: education, language, orgdevl

Music Monday – “And all I can do is read a book to stay awake/And it rips my life away, but it’s a great escape”

“No Rain” – Blind Melon (What happened to iconic 90s image, Bee Girl?)

¶ Posted 25 September 2023 § Meme § MusicMonday ‡ Comments (0) °

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Hammy Warhol (April 2012)

¶ Posted 21 September 2023 § Family § Pace § Photo § PopCulture § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Keeping Them in Stitches (September 2013)

Pace ran into a tree and had to get stitches then, nearly a decade before Covid, used Skype to video chat with Grandpa and Grandma to show the war wounds…

¶ Posted 14 September 2023 § Family § Pace § Photo § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: health, parents

MJF Does Some Simple Math

MFJ might be one of my favourite wrestlers working today and this callback promo is exactly why – the guy lives wrestling and wrestling history and takes advantage of his current feud with Samoa Joe to perfectly evoke one of the best, funniest promos in wrestling history: Callback: According to @The_MJF the numbers don't lie […]

¶ Posted 13 September 2023 § Humour § Wrestling ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, language, television

Friday Fun Link – “Is This Real Life?”

Pace had four wisdom teeth removed early on Friday morning. When he got home, I was reminded of this clip – one of the original viral videos of the YouTube age:

¶ Posted 08 September 2023 § Family § Humour § Meme § Pace § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute, health, youtube

Throwback Thursday – Happy Work-iversary To Me! (September 2008)

Friday is my 15th work anniversary of starting at RPL which is hard to believe! (Uhm, time flies when you’re having fun?!?) I was trying to write a long post talking about the various roles I’ve held at RPL, some of the highs and lows, and more. But it was just getting longer and longer […]