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Music Monday – “And nothing ever stays/Nothing comes to mind/And no one can erase/The days we left behind”

We’re all getting older and mortality seems very close sometimes… “Days We Left Behind” – Paul McCartney “April Come She Will/Sound of Silence” – Paul Simon

¶ Posted 18 May 2026 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § UK ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: health, music

Saturday Snap – Meeting of the Minds?

Had a really nice visit with my mom before Shea and I leave for Mexico (twice in one winter?!? What???) tomorrow. Off to Puerto Vallarta for a week and it’s a long story but we got a good deal and have been thinking a lot about how all four of our parents quit traveling earlier […]

¶ Posted 04 April 2026 § Family § MemoryLane § SaturdaySnap § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: allinclusive, health, holiday

Friday Fun Link – “Oh Poop!” A Modern Illustrated Fairy Tale

With some help from ChatGPT, I/we wrote the following fairy tale… (Any resemblence to people, places or things living or on life support, is purely coincidental.) Oh Poop!: A Modern Illustrated Fairy Tale In a broad kingdom, flat as a table and swept by endless winds, there stood an aging castle at the heart of […]

¶ Posted 20 March 2026 § Humour § Internet § Jobs § Library § MemoryLane § News § Photo § Politics § Saskatchewan § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, economics, education, health, history, saskatchewan

Wisdom Wednesday – I’m Actually in Season 17 With (Mostly) New Characters

This resonated… @ddp8792 #relatable #relationships #friends #work #girl ? original sound – Davi

¶ Posted 28 January 2026 § Humour § Jobs § Library § MemoryLane § Work ‡ Comments (0) °

Music Monday – “Gotta get down to it, soldiers are cutting us down/Should have been gone long ago/What if you knew her and found her dead on the ground/How can you run when you know?

History doesn’t repeat. But it rhymes… “Ohio” – Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young

¶ Posted 26 January 2026 § News § Politics § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: history

Saturday Snap – Boxing Day Party With Mom

¶ Posted 27 December 2025 § Family § MemoryLane § Photo § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: parents

Secular Sunday – Grifting, I Mean, Grieving Widow?

Charlie Kirk’s wife husband was violently assassinated three months ago. I’m pretty hard on religion and a lot of people are saying her “grieving” isn’t appropriate. But if I’m being completely honest, if she’s truly a hardcore Christian Evangelical, I’m guessing that there’s nothing deeper here (literally) than her thinking that her husband dying was […]

¶ Posted 21 December 2025 § Humour § Meme § News § Politics § PopCulture § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: atheism, education

Music Monday – “He Ao hara, he Ao Aroha kore/T? mai r? koe hei whaka-tau I au/Ng? t?manako O te Ao Katoa”

“Tapu Te P? (O Holy Night)” – Marlon Williams, Dhungala Children’s Choir, Paul Kelly

¶ Posted 15 December 2025 § MusicMonday § News § Politics § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: atheism, education, holiday, language, xmas

Music Monday – “I will come back here, bring me back when I’m old/I want to lay here forever in the cold I might be cold but I’m just skin and bones/And I’ll never love England more than when covered in snow”

One of the single saddest moments of my life was leaving England a couple days before Christmas after a four-month college exchange. I still consider the single most joyful stretch of my entire life – the people, the sights, the experiences – just pure living in the moment and openness to the world that greatly […]