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Saturday Snap – University of Regina (As Viewed From the Sask Science Centre)

Shea’s out with a friend tonight so Pace and I got to have a Boy’s Night Out. He wanted to go clubbing <grin> but instead, we went to see “Born to Be Wild 3D” at the Kramer Imax Theatre in the Sask Science Centre. I snapped this pic while we were playing in their outdoor […]

¶ Posted 28 May 2011 § Family § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, movies, saskatchewan, weather

Music Monday – “Your smile is like a breath of spring/Your voice is like summer rain/And I cannot compete with you/Jolene” (Bonus: Incomplete List of Bands I’ve Seen Live)

Dolly Parton was the voice in a movie we watched this weekend (Gnomeo & Juliet – very cute!) and that somehow led to me thinking about the various concerts I’ve seen in my life (Dolly being one of the Top Five believe it or not!) Off the top of my head, here’s a very incomplete […]

¶ Posted 23 May 2011 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (5) ° Tagged: music

Saturday Snap – Happy Fourth Birthday, Pace!

Although I’m not as obsessive as those folks who take a picture-a-day of themselves or their babies, I have tried to take a photo of Pace every few months and now every year. I didn’t plan it this way initially but now always include an Oscar the Grouch doll we bought him when he was […]

¶ Posted 21 May 2011 § Family § SaturdaySnap § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music

“Daddy, You Need Mommy To Give You ‘Talking Real’ Needles!”

Four years ago, I never imagined that I’d be laying in bed tonight with my perfect, wonderful son, having this conversation: “What am I made of, daddy?” “You’re made of lots of stuff – bones and muscles and skin.” “And what else?” “Well, did you know that most people are mostly made up of water?” […]

¶ Posted 19 May 2011 § Family § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute, holiday, parents

Music Monday – “I used to come here when I was six/When everything hurt and I felt sick/There is something about the colder air/That made me feel better than anywhere”

We’re off to Calgary from Wednesday until early next week so it may be another blog holiday depending on how busy we are and what my Internet access is like at our various ports of call. In the meantime, here’s a song from one of my favourite artists I discovered when we lived in Cowtown. […]

¶ Posted 09 May 2011 § MusicMonday § Video § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: alberta, music

Music Monday – “I’d always taught my sons/We were safe around police/But when they charged on horses/Well, I dragged us off the street/It made me so angry/They’d endanger children too/In silencing the voices of 1932”

We had singer-songwriter Maria Dunn as the endnote speaker for one of the conferences I organized when I worked for the Writers Guild of Alberta. She gave an awesome presentation about her writing process mixed with a performance of songs from what was then her newest CD (she was in town a couple weeks ago […]

¶ Posted 04 April 2011 § MusicMonday § Politics § Video § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: alberta, history, music

2011 Havana Book Fair Tour for Librarians, Writers and Bibliophiles

I missed it this year but I think it’s an annual event so maybe I’ll get to the Havana International Book Fair someday?

¶ Posted 20 March 2011 § Library § Politics § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: allinclusive, book, economics, holiday

And Now A Message From Shane MacGowan…

…Happy St. Patty’s Day! But as someone points out in the comments, “Shane will be drunk temporarily but the interviewer will be a twat forever.” (Though that’s admittedly a pretty broad definition of “temporarily”!) Ah well, he’s always been a gooder, addictions or no.