Category Archives: MemoryLane

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – ‘Bout Time They Made A Minecraft Movie (Dec 2015)

Pace and I (okay, mostly Pace) have been waiting for years!  At least the wait means Sasha will be able to come too.

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – My Happy Place (Jan 2022)

The house we moved to in Fall 2019 has a few things our old house didn’t have – a lot more space, attached garage, walk-in closet, opens onto a green space and a designated office. This proved to be very fortunate when the Covid shutdown happened and I was working from home spending a lot […]

Wisdom Wednesday – But…

A senior manager recently said “I don’t want to say the word ‘but’ because everyone knows that when you say ‘but’, the next thing you say is going to be negative or bad news.” She then went on to say “However…” to speak against something someone had done that had taken a huge amount of […]

Music Monday – “Not a shaman, or a showman, ashamed I was selling the rights/I took a breather, and decided not to ruin my life/I was conforming to a cosmic design I was playing to type/Until I walked back to the gard?n of earthly delights”

“Spike Island” – Pulp

Saturday Snap – From U of R Student to U of R Alumni to U of R Dad (and Mom Though She’s Technically A U of S Grad)

Five *Good* Things About Dementia

Dementia is obviously a horrible, terrible progressive disease as someone you love goes from very basic memory errors – forgetting names, where they parked the car, etc. – to being incapable of speech, movement, feeding themselves. As mom has progressed through these various stages, it’s been helpful to try to think of the good things […]

Wisdom Wednesday – April Fool?

This is a post that’s five (or maybe even ten or fifteen?) years in the making. When I started at RPL fifteen years ago, I was an extremely unique position in the HR Unit called “Organization Development Specialist” with responsibility for staff training and development, change management initiatives, working on the nebulous “organizational culture” among […]

Saturday Snap – Modern Day Prom Jacket

I posted on Thursday about my high school prom. As we prepare for Pace’s this year (uhm, buy your flowers and plants here!) I sometimes wish I could go back and tell that grey-suited, clean-cut young man that the future was going to be a bit more outlandish!

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – From Proms to Nursing Home Moms

Real “circle of life” shit that the classmate I did the Grand March with during our high school graduation (not my prom date – this was when we marched in alphabetically by name which is why there are two guys – Hammond & Hanley – with one girl – Kalk – since guys outnumbered girls […]

Music Monday – “My old south London home.”

It’s been a quiet couple weeks with us on holidays and then me busy with a conference for most of last week but time to get back to blogging.  And I’ve got a perfect video for Music Monday falling on St. Patrick’s Day – a montage of pics I made against two Celtic-Canadian songs from […]