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Music Monday – “Everyone is at the mercy of another one’s dreams” (“Angels” by Sam Baker – A Song for Bombing Victims Everywhere)

Sam Baker is an amazing songwriter I discovered while attending the Fred Eaglesmith Charity picnic in Alymer, Ontario in 2006. Part of what makes him so amazing is that he really shouldn’t even be here, having survived a bombing that killed three other people while riding on a train in Peru in 1986. That experience […]

¶ Posted 29 April 2013 § MusicMonday § Randomness § Travel § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music, philosophy

Saturday Snap – Mom’s Lifetime Membership in SUN (and some thoughts on where she’s influenced me – it might not be where you’d expect!)

One benefit of being home with the baby for a couple weeks was that Shea, Sasha and I were able to slip out one afternoon earlier this week for one of Sasha’s first-ever outings. We snuck into the SUN AGM & Conference to see my mom receive a Lifetime Membership from the organization (she’d also […]

¶ Posted 27 April 2013 § Family § Jobs § Library § Saskatchewan § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: health, orgdevl, parents, saskatchewan

I’m a Dad – Random Thoughts About Sasha’s First Day (On Her One Week Birthday)

So as much as I’d like to just keep posting pictures of Sasha, eventually I’ve got to get back to blog posts that have “letters” and “words” rather than cute pictures. A good place to start would be with a look back at that first day, inspired partly by many of the notes I scribbled […]

¶ Posted 23 April 2013 § Baby § Humour § Internet § Pace § Photo § Sasha § Shea § Technology § Wisdom ‡ Comments (3) ° Tagged: economics, facebook, health, parents

A Tender Moment

¶ Posted 21 April 2013 § Family § Photo § Sasha § Shea ‡ Comments (0) °

Saturday Snap – Sasha Rayden Week One Photo Montage

Having a pretty good first week so far and it’s only half over!

¶ Posted 20 April 2013 § Baby § Family § Pace § Photo § Sasha § Shea ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: cute

Our New Family

¶ Posted 18 April 2013 § Family § Pace § Photo § Sasha § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute

Sasha Rayden Hammond and a Friend

I suspect I’ll be burning up the “Cute” tag on this blog in the days, weeks and months to come! 😉

¶ Posted 17 April 2013 § Baby § Photo § Sasha ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute

Music Monday – “And We’re Glad, Glad, Glad/You’re a Glide”

I’ve made a few passing references to my semester exchange to England in 1995 on this blog but I don’t know if I’ve ever told the story in a bit greater detail. I will do that someday for sure as that four month period remains (and *please* don’t tell Shea I said this!) ;-), the […]

¶ Posted 15 April 2013 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Travel § UK § Video ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: book, cool, holiday, music

Friday Fun Link – History of NHL Video Games (1991-2012)

Lots of nostalgia in the video below… NHL 94 is the obvious classic of the bunch but I probably spent more time playing EA NHL 2000 than any other video game in my life. Nothing spectacular about that particular game – just came at a time when I had lots of free time (no kids!), […]

¶ Posted 12 April 2013 § Canada § FridayFunLink § Sports § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: hockey

One Volunteer’s Inventory of the Sask NDP Leadership Race

I drafted this post about a week before the Leadership convention so you have to read it as if the election still hadn’t happened. I could re-write but really like that opening about “pre-emptive nostalgia” so wanted to keep it. Given what I’m writing about and how I ended it, I thought it fitting to […]