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Sunset (or Sunrise?)

My last post was August 21 when I said I was going to try to get back to (roughly) daily blog posts after a summer of holidays and other distractions. Then I promptly didn’t post again for nearly two more weeks until today. Lots I could write, lots of navel-gazing about why I (still) have […]

¶ Posted 06 September 2023 § Blog § Family § Photo § Politics § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: camping, holiday, parents

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – 20 Years of Seasonal Camping (2003-2023)

Back from our most recent camping stretch but bittersweet as my inlaws decided to pull the pin after twenty years of seasonal camping. (This has been coming for awhile but still tough that the moment finally arrived.) So much of our week away was watching as they listed (and sold) their camper, packed up everything […]

¶ Posted 10 August 2023 § Family § Humour § Pace § Sad § Sasha § Saskatchewan § Shea § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: camping, cute, holiday, parents, saskatchewan, weather

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Sea Urgency (January 2012)

“Sea Urgency” instead of “Sea Urchin” is a malapropism that Sasha coined in Mexico but it applies for this picture taken during a snorkeling excursion in Hawaii in January 2012 long before she was born…

¶ Posted 29 June 2023 § Animals § Family § Humour § Photo § Sasha § ThrowbackThursday § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute, holiday, language, science

Wisdom Wednesday – “Everyone thinks we’re in the book business but we’re not. We’re in the helping business.”

This piece of advice ties directly to last week’s about how the absolute most vital piece of advice I’ve received in my 15+ years as a librarian is to do what you can to solve the problem of the person standing in front of you. In library school, I think I saw a stat that […]

¶ Posted 28 June 2023 § Library § Wisdom Wednesday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: orgdevl

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Bellagio Fountains (March 2009)

May have told this story before but my parents won a trip for two to Las Vegas and it happened to coincide with a week that Shea and I had booked off. So after a bit of chaos to get Pace (two going on three) a rush passport, we booked and ended up going along. […]

¶ Posted 22 June 2023 § Pace § Photo § ThrowbackThursday § Travel § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, economics, holiday, travel

Wisdom Wednesday – “What Are You Doing To Solve The Problem of the Person Standing in Front of You”

I’ve been trying to write a post summarizing some of the various tips, pieces of advice, koans of wisdom that I’ve collected over the years – mostly from my time in libraries but from other workplaces, reading of books articles and just talking to knowledgeable people I respect. As that post grew and grew, I […]

¶ Posted 21 June 2023 § Library § Wisdom § Wisdom Wednesday § Work ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: orgdevl, philosophy

Friday Fun Link – The Simpsons “No No” Sheets

¶ Posted 16 June 2023 § Humour § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: television

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Hail Storm (June 2013)

¶ Posted 15 June 2023 § Photo § Saskatchewan § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: camping, weather

University of Western Ontario Is One of Only Twenty Universities Worldwide To Get Top Rating (And Only One in Canada)

I really thought my attending the University of Western Ontario might drag the rating down – yes, even nearly two decade later. But luckily UWO is still an extremely prestigious University even if they allow pretenders like myself to darken their halls. 😉

¶ Posted 13 June 2023 § Humour § LibrarySchool § News § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, ontario

Saturday Snap – The Green Green Grass of Home?

We’re having our yard landscaped next week so, if I’m lucky, this might be a photo of the last time I cut grass in my life! (Also, funny coincidence – the kid’s climbing structure ended up going to…our former neighbours at our last house who saw the listing on Facebook and reached out. If I’d […]