Category Archives: MemoryLane

“Life Moves Pretty Fast”: Why Gen X “Got It” Before The Rest of You

As a Gen-Xer, I don’t even know if this article is being sarcastic or not?

Music Monday – “And it’s just like the ocean under the moon/Oh, it’s the same as the emotion that I get from you/You got the kind of lovin’ that can be so smooth, yeah/Give me your heart, make it real, or else forget about “

“Smooth” – Santana (featuring Rob Thomas)

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Photocopier Training (October 2009)

I recently took delivery of a new photocopier at the branch I’m currently working at and it reminded me of my first job at RPL where I oversaw all staff training and development…including organizing training on what were, at the time, brand new, full-featured photocopiers!

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Decorated University Hospital, London ON (Nov 2006)

Shea heading into work a month before Christmas in 2006 just as I was wrapping up my Masters program…

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – No Covid, No Covid! (January 2022, March 2021)

The good old days when I could mock Covid by making a giant “C” out of our family’s negative tests back in January of this year… …and even earlier in March 2021 which is when Shea was first able to get Covid rapid tests through her work to be used for herself and her family […]

Music Monday – “Everybody’s got the fever/That is something you all know/Fever isn’t such a new thing/Fever started long ago”

I’m home with a sick kid today (plus had ice cream for breakfast as I have a sore throat myself!) so a rough couple of months in terms of family health continues… Ironically, we only dealt with Covid once (Pace for a week in early October) and, knock on wood, no one else in the […]

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Camp Hope (October 2021)

Just over a year ago in mid-October, I saw a friend post on social media that a tent city was being set up in Pepsi Park in Regina and looking for donations. We had an extra tent so I took it down and briefly spoke to some of the organizers (including my friend by phone […]

Carey Price and the Price of Not Knowing

On Dec 4, just before the December 6 anniversary of the Ecole Polytechnique Massacre, longtime Montreal Canadiens goalie, Carey Price, waded into the gun control debate with a poorly timed tweet defending his rights as a hunter and attacking the most recent changes to gun control legislation by the Justin Trudeau government. In his initial […]

Music Monday – “Who said that every wish/Would be heard and answered/When wished on the morning star”

RIP Bob McGrath. A huge part of many kids’ childhoods and a deep, impactful connection to Saskatchewan as well. (I never met the man but of all the celebrities I’ve tried to add on Facebook – some successfully, some not – his acceptance was probably the one that made me the happiest!) “Rainbow Connection” – […]

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Gingerbread Houses at Hotel Sask (Dec 2009)

The Hotel Saskatchewan always feels magical during the holiday season…