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Some Quick Thoughts On The Stabbing at Lynn Valley Public Library in North Vancouver

Shea and I often talk about how strange it is that librarians are one of the few professions where practitioners actively visit local examples of their workplace in other communities when traveling (she doesn’t have a strong desire to visit hospitals in other places when on a holiday – that’s for sure!). I think there’s […]

Posted 28 March 2021 § Jobs § Library § MemoryLane § Pace § Sad § Shea § Travel § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Saturday Snap – Triple Masking = Max Covid Protection?

I was talking to the kids about possibly double-masking as an added precaution and Sasha decided to take it a step further with three masks (which she didn’t end up wearing, mostly because she ran out of ear to hook the straps on!) And it didn’t last long as we made the decision to pull […]

Posted 27 March 2021 § Humour § Sasha § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Future Rapper? (October 2010)

Pace appears well positioned for a career making hip hop videos…

Posted 25 March 2021 § Humour § MemoryLane § Pace § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Saturday Snap – First Shorts of the Year?

For some reason, I’ve made a point to note the first day of snow every year pretty much since I started this blog. But with beautiful +14 weather on the last day of winter, I wonder if I missed an opportunity to also record the first day I wore shorts outside each spring?

Posted 20 March 2021 § Blog § MemoryLane § Saskatchewan § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Covid-19: A Year in Review

But remembering the past is also a way of believing that this moment will someday be the past. Which is to say, nostalgia for the past is also a way of believing in the future. Daydreaming about the After Times — the Before Times’s mythic counterpart — is in part an exercise in imagining what it will […]

Posted 18 March 2021 § Family § Humour § List § MemoryLane § News § Pace § Politics § PopCulture § Randomness § Sad § Sasha § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Saturday Snap – High School Bound

Pace brought home his application form for high school yesterday and that’s a bit hard to believe!  

Posted 13 March 2021 § Baby § Family § Pace § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Pandemic Anniversary (March 11, 2020)

Hard to believe that March 11 is the one year anniversary of the WHO declaring Covid-19 a worldwide pandemic. I thought it was perfect that it fell on a Throwback Thursday as I was sure I’d likely have a lot of appropriate photos from that momentous day a year ago that I could post. But […]

Posted 11 March 2021 § Humour § List § MemoryLane § News § ThrowbackThursday § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Saturday Snap – Reading Science Books = Future Astronaut?

Sasha’s pretty obsessed with this True/False book about the planets.  Future astronaut confirmed! 😉

Posted 06 March 2021 § Family § PopCulture § Sasha § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Freedom To Read Week 2021 – Day Five – Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Calgary #FTRW Committee Council Presentation (February 2004)

Through my work with the Writers Guild of Alberta, I became involved with the Calgary Freedom to Read Week Committee.  I can’t find it online now but my memory is that this committee of writers, librarians, publishers and social activists was formed after some MLA held up some book in the Alberta Legislature to denounce […]

Posted 25 February 2021 § Censorship § Jobs § Library § MemoryLane § News § Politics § ThrowbackThursday § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Saturday Snap – Top o’ the Morning

We have a little alcove near the entrance of our house where we’ve hung a “Century Family Farm” plaque that my family got in 1983 and which my parents gave to me as a housewarming gift after having it framed in barn board. At Christmas, I decided to fill the space underneath with some decorations […]

Posted 20 February 2021 § MemoryLane § PopCulture § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: