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Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Our (Legal) Wedding Twenty Years Ago (February 2003)

A few days ago, I posted how it was our 20th anniversary (at least of our legal wedding, not of the ceremony we had on the beach in Mexico a month later which is the anniversary we “count”.) Here’s a picture from our legal wedding (and coincidentally, my cousin who stood up with me happens […]

¶ Posted 09 February 2023 § Family § Humour § Photo § Shea § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: alberta, allinclusive

Music Monday – “It’s knowing that this can’t go on forever/Likely one of us will have to spend some days alone/Maybe we’ll get forty years together/But one day I’ll be gone/Or one day you’ll be gone”

I’ve told the story on this blog a few times before how Shea and I technically got married three times (with the related joke that most men can’t keep track of one anniversary and I have to remember three. Or, flipping that, I have three chances to remember it!) To recap… Our Three Weddings * Feb […]

¶ Posted 06 February 2023 § Humour § List § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Shea § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: allinclusive

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Going To Winterpeg (January 2013)

Shea and I are fortunate to have gone on about a dozen hot holidays over the years to Mexico, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Hawaii, etc. But we couldn’t always swing it so one winter, we decided to go to…Winnipeg with both sets of parents for a family getaway. The temp in Regina was -42 and the […]

¶ Posted 02 February 2023 § Family § Photo § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: holiday, weather

The Sandwich Generation

I talked to a twenty-something young man the other day who had never heard the term “Sandwich Generation”. Basically, the idea is that anyone who has kids (whether they’re young or older but who still need financial support and/or who live at home) and also elderly parents who they are responsible for caring for is […]

¶ Posted 31 January 2023 § Family § Pace § Sasha § Shea § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, health, parents

Music Monday – “Cause if summer is here/I’m still waiting there/Winter is here/And I’m still waiting there”

I have many fond memories of regularly going to the Ness Creek Music Festival, a hippie festival in Northern Saskatchewan, when I was in my twenties. I can’t remember their name but one moment of perfection was a band I’d never heard of but that ended up being a reggae band who brought a little […]

¶ Posted 30 January 2023 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Saskatchewan § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: allinclusive, holiday, music, saskatchewan

Secular Sunday – Cardinal Marc Ouelette Resigns Amidst Misconduct Allegations

If you pay attention, you’ll see that though I aim for daily posts on this blog, I often don’t do them until the following day for one reason or another (get busy with the kids or fall asleep early or just forget or whatever.) Two ways to know it’s a backdated post are if the […]

¶ Posted 29 January 2023 § Jobs § Library § Meme § News § Politics § SecularSunday § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: atheism, education

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Stuffed in a Locker (April 2016)

Pace did this to himself after parkour, he wasn’t being bullied by a classmate (or a parent) – honest!

¶ Posted 26 January 2023 § Humour § Pace § Photo § Sports § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: health

Friday Fun Link – How To Take Sports Less Seriously

I’ve always followed sports and played a lot of different ones in my younger days (not so much these days as Shea said she’d divorce me if I started keeping hockey equipment in the house ever again!) but I don’t think I’ve ever been fanatical in following sports to an unhealthy degree. With that said, […]

¶ Posted 20 January 2023 § FridayFunLink § Humour § Sports § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: health, hockey

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – RPL Staff Day 2017

I was going to do a post about the most memorable moments (good and bad!) at the various RPL Staff Development Days/Staff Conferences I’ve attended over the years (including five years on the planning committee and three years as Chair) but I don’t really have the energy for it because as I type this, it’s […]