Category Archives: MemoryLane

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Brother-In-Law’s Wedding (Jan 2015)

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Silly Suitcase (September 2010)

Friday Fun Link – Superman Trailer

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – ‘Bout Time They Made A Minecraft Movie (Dec 2015)

Pace and I (okay, mostly Pace) have been waiting for years!  At least the wait means Sasha will be able to come too.

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – My Happy Place (Jan 2022)

The house we moved to in Fall 2019 has a few things our old house didn’t have – a lot more space, attached garage, walk-in closet, opens onto a green space and a designated office. This proved to be very fortunate when the Covid shutdown happened and I was working from home spending a lot […]

Wisdom Wednesday – But…

A senior manager recently said “I don’t want to say the word ‘but’ because everyone knows that when you say ‘but’, the next thing you say is going to be negative or bad news.” She then went on to say “However…” to speak against something someone had done that had taken a huge amount of […]

Music Monday – “Not a shaman, or a showman, ashamed I was selling the rights/I took a breather, and decided not to ruin my life/I was conforming to a cosmic design I was playing to type/Until I walked back to the gard?n of earthly delights”

“Spike Island” – Pulp

Saturday Snap – From U of R Student to U of R Alumni to U of R Dad (and Mom Though She’s Technically A U of S Grad)

Five *Good* Things About Dementia

Dementia is obviously a horrible, terrible progressive disease as someone you love goes from very basic memory errors – forgetting names, where they parked the car, etc. – to being incapable of speech, movement, feeding themselves. As mom has progressed through these various stages, it’s been helpful to try to think of the good things […]

Wisdom Wednesday – April Fool?

This is a post that’s five (or maybe even ten or fifteen?) years in the making. When I started at RPL fifteen years ago, I was an extremely unique position in the HR Unit called “Organization Development Specialist” with responsibility for staff training and development, change management initiatives, working on the nebulous “organizational culture” among […]