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Category Archives: MemoryLane

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – For Weddings and a Funeral (August 2008)

Hard to believe that fifteen years ago we were at Shea’s cousin’s wedding and took this photo of three girls (also cousins) she’d basically raised from babies with our baby. Sadly, the last time we would see the sister on the left was at the sister on the right’s wedding earlier this summer.  She was […]

Posted 14 December 2023 § Family § Pace § Photo § Sad § Shea § ThrowbackThursday § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – RSO at RPL (September 2010)

Hosted a visit by the RSO Chamber Players tonight at the Glen Elm Branch and was reminded that the partnership between RSO and RPL is probably one of the most long-standing, most successful in RPL history. Here’s a pic of the RSO at RPL back in September 2010…

Posted 07 December 2023 § Library § Photo § ThrowbackThursday § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Are We (Finally) Coming Out of Covid? Probably Not But Also Maybe?

I haven’t written a lot about Covid lately but it’s interesting to reflect on how our attitudes and therefore, our language, changes. For instance, I have started saying “Coming out of Covid” to refer to our current situation and as a reflection of what I see in wider society – very little masking (including myself […]

Posted 05 December 2023 § News § Politics § Sad § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Music Monday – “We watched our friends grow up together/And we saw them as they fell/Some of them fell into Heaven/Some of them fell into Hell” (RIP Shane MacGowan: 1957-2023)

RIP to the only performer that ever scared the shit out of me when he appeared on SNL in the early to mid 1990’s.  And what a performer he was! “A Rainy Night in Soho” – The Pogues And at this time of year, I have to mention the greatest Christmas song of all-time… “Fairytale […]

Posted 04 December 2023 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Sad § UK § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – First Rapid Tests (March 2021)

We were lucky that Shea is a nurse as we got early access to rapid tests before they were widely distributed to the general public. No way to know for sure but I feel like that was part of why we may have been able to avoid Covid as long as we did – anytime […]

Posted 30 November 2023 § Family § Jobs § Pace § Photo § Sasha § Shea § ThrowbackThursday § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

The Making of NHL ’94: 30 Year Anniversary

Posted 28 November 2023 § PopCulture § Sports § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Water Fountain Flower (January 2012)

One highlight of working at Central Library was being able to go out and walk around Wascana Lake (part of the largest urban park in North America!) regularly during my lunch breaks. Always liked this photo I took on my route one day…

Posted 23 November 2023 § Library § Photo § Saskatchewan § ThrowbackThursday § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Hyatt Ziva Cancun (March 2019)

The only all-inclusive resort of the dozen or so we’ve stayed at that we’ve said we’d go back to.  Absolutely stunning.

Posted 16 November 2023 § Photo § ThrowbackThursday § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – HR Unit (January 2012)

Yesterday’s post got me a bit nostalgic for the HR Unit I was part of for the first few years of my career at RPL – what a great team!

Posted 09 November 2023 § Jobs § Library § Photo § ThrowbackThursday § Work ‡ Comments (0) °

Wisdom Wednesday – Culture Eats Strategy For Lunch

I first heard this advice years ago when I was still in the role of Organization Development Specialist at Regina Public Library. In hindsight, I don’t think I appreciated what an amazing job that was to have right at the start of my library career. Our Director (still the same guy all these years later) […]

Posted 08 November 2023 § Jobs § Library § Sad § Wisdom Wednesday § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,