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, […]
Five years ago on my dad’s 65th birthday, I posted a list of some of the many reasons I loved him – fond memories, funny memories, ways he’s helped me grow into the person I’ve become. It was probably the most personal thing I’ve ever posted to this blog. And since dad turned 70 this […]
In my never-ending quest to have a theme for each day of the week that eliminates the need to put actual thought into my daily blog posts, I’m going to try out the Throwback Thursday theme that’s so popular on Twitter and Facebook these days. And as an extra bonus, I don’t even have to […]
