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Secular Sunday – “At the age of 16, Annelise Michel began blacking out at school…”

At the age of 16, Annelise Michel began blacking out at school and would soon start convulsing, vomiting, eating spiders, and coal, and even drinking her own urine. After undergoing 67 exorcisms, she died in 1976. She died of malnutrition, for which her parents and… pic.twitter.com/6puRCeEkUN — Fascinating (@fasc1nate) March 19, 2024

¶ Posted 14 April 2024 § SecularSunday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: atheism, education, health, science

Secular Sunday – God Works in Mysterious Ways

This is probably too soon and I’m going to burn in hell for saying it. But if you’re religious, you probably think 45 pilgrims dying and one 8-year old girl surviving means that little girl is blessed by god and not that there is no god (or if there is, he doesn’t really interact in […]

¶ Posted 31 March 2024 § SecularSunday § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: atheism, education, holiday, science, travel

How FIVE BILLION Pounds of Trash Powers Las Vegas

¶ Posted 26 March 2024 § Jobs § Technology § Travel § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, holiday, science

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – First Dementia Signs (February 2018)

One good thing about being an obsessive journal keeper since right around the time I graduated high school (and that those journals, started in WordPerfect, have now all been digitized and are completely searchable.) So that’s how I know that the very first reference I made to my mom showing signs of dementia was in […]

¶ Posted 29 February 2024 § Family § MemoryLane § Photo § Shea § ThrowbackThursday § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: allinclusive, health, parents, travel

What Are The Stages of Dementia?

¶ Posted 31 January 2024 § Family § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: health, parents

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 § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § Shea § ThrowbackThursday § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: health, parents

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 § MemoryLane § News § Politics § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, economics, health, language

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 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § UK § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: language, music

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) […]