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Music Monday – “Will you recognize me?/Call my name or walk on by/Rain keeps falling, rain keeps falling/Down, down, down, down”

Haven’t posted for a few weeks – busy at work, busy at home, camping holidays, some weird blog gremlins that make quick posts a bit harder than they used to be – but wanted to post to let my thousands dozens of readers know I’m still alive and more regular posting will likely resume…eventually. 😉 […]

¶ Posted 21 July 2025 § Blog § MusicMonday § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: camping, music

Music Monday – “If you should ever leave me/Though life would still go on believe me/The world could show nothing to me/So what good would living do me”

“God Only Knows” (Isolated Vocals) – Beach Boys (RIP Brian Wilson)

¶ Posted 16 June 2025 § MusicMonday § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: language, music

Saturday Snap – The Graduates

¶ Posted 14 June 2025 § Family § Pace § Photo § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute, education

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Jan Lake Lodge (July 2014)

With the wildfires burning in northern Saskatchewan (and really, across much of Canada’s north), I can’t help but think of the handful of times I’ve been able to travel to the north of the province for vacations or even work. This was a fishing trip we did with Shea’s family in 2014.

¶ Posted 12 June 2025 § Family § Photo § Sad § Saskatchewan § Shea § ThrowbackThursday § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: camping, saskatchewan, science, travel

Wisdom Wednesday – HR Rebranding as People & Culture is a Really Dumb Trend

HR doesn’t set the culture, the leaders do. So look at the top leaders – how do they act? How do they treat people? How do they support people? How do they enable people to do their best work? Are they well-liked by staff? Do staff even know who they are? (If they don’t, do […]

¶ Posted 11 June 2025 § Jobs § Wisdom Wednesday § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, language, orgdevl

Music Monday – “When we woke up that morning we had no way of knowing/That in a matter of hours we’d change the way we were going/Where would I be now, where would I be now if we’d never met?/Would I be singing this song to someone else instead?”

“Something Changed” – Pulp

¶ Posted 09 June 2025 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § UK ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music

Friday Fun Link – Florida Former Flames

With all the US-Canada tensions, I would have taken any Canadian team in the Stanley Cup final this year compared to most years when I cheer for whichever team I like best – New York Islanders to Detroit Red Wings to Pittsburgh Penguins. But this year, I wanted a Canadian team in the Cup Final […]

¶ Posted 06 June 2025 § Canada § FridayFunLink § Humour § Sports ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: alberta, hockey, unitedstates

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – 10 Promises to Myself (August 2010)

Fairly early in my career, I wrote a post called “10 Promises To Myself” where I tried to outline how I would approach my career and how I would always try to be true to my own values even if there was pressure to compromise for career advancement or financial rewards or even just pressure […]

¶ Posted 05 June 2025 § Jobs § Library § LibrarySchool § List § ThrowbackThursday § Wisdom Wednesday ‡ Comments (0) °

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Welcome to Head Tale, The Blog

Let’s go *way* back to my very first blog post back in February 2006, nearly two months into my MLIS program and thinking “What can I possibly take up as a hobby that will help me procrastinate with assignments *and* be something I’m still doing twenty years later?!?”

¶ Posted 29 May 2025 § Blog § LibrarySchool § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, ontario

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Oscar Is Here! (May 2007)

Instead of just posting a random picture from the past, I thought I’d try something new and post a link to a long ago article to take advantage of the fact that I have kept this blog going for nearly twenty years (!) which means its going to qualify for a pension soon! And what […]