It was a highlight of my young career as a librarian to get to spend a year and a half working in RPL’s Outreach Unit serving visually impaired, homebound, and other special needs patrons across Regina. Here’s a pic I snapped when our monthly book club (the group listened to audio books but otherwise operated […]
I’m truly fascinated by the phenomena of Facebook birthday messages. Uh, happy birthday to me!
I remember seeing the New Zealand band, Hobnail Boots (now known as “Hobnail“) when they played the Ness Creek Festival during a cross-Canada tour, maybe in the mid-1990’s? Funny how hearing the opening notes of this song immediately brought back great memories of their entire performance… “Ouzo” – Hobnail Boots
The TD Summer Reading Program is once again in full swing at libraries across Canada. Here’s a pic of Pace and I with one of the entertainers (Walden the Wizard?) I brought in when I worked at Southeast Regional Library. Pace seems a bit uncertain of this wizard’s powers! 😉
A cousin’s Facebook post reminded me that today marks ten years since my Grandma Hammond passed away. It’s hard to believe how quickly time has flown! I had the great privilege of delivering her eulogy and although I know some family members were a bit uneasy about the fact that I didn’t do a very typical […]
At the beginning of the year, the teacher said that any kid who read 300 books would get a prize at the end of the year. Pace ended up reading around 400 books (and probably more that we didn’t always remember to write in his reading log), got a pretty cool “Thunder Maker” toy as […]
(full comic available here and worth the click)
This is a picture of me sitting at the circulation desk of the Indian Head branch library that I grew up with and ended up as supervisor for in my first job after doing my Master of Library Science degree.
Recently Reddit’s /r/atheism sub-reddit had a question asking users for a one or two sentence explanation for why they’re atheists. I’ve got a lot of reasons but my own two-sentence answer would be something like this: When I was a kid, my friend and I were really into Greek mythology. He pointed out that the […]
Shea and I finally dropped our landline and will only be using our smartphones going forward. Some risks and downsides of course but overall, we were basically paying $40/month for calls to and from both sets of parents (which we can still do with our smartphones) and otherwise, 90% of our calls were spammers, surveys, […]
