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Beyond The Statistics: Prairie Woman Creates Facebook Page to Humanize Covid Stories

The creator of a FB page promoting the honest, non-partisan sharing of Covid experiences was a couple years behind me in school and I know her dad and family as well. It’s tragic that the reason she created this page was because her dad is one of many people in Indian Head affected by Covid […]

Posted 17 November 2020 § MemoryLane § Saskatchewan § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – My Grandma at the Golden Prairie Nursing Home, Indian Head, SK (April 2004) #skpoli

As rumours spread that at least two dozen people in the community have Covid, my hometown of Indian Head, Saskatchewan is facing a jump in Covid cases that has affected the nursing home, local businesses and now both the elementary and high schools which are going to be closed for two weeks. WATCH: Over the […]

Posted 12 November 2020 § Family § MemoryLane § News § Politics § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Friday Fun Link – Ruth Bader-Ginsburg On Not Retiring

From happier times…  

Posted 25 September 2020 § FridayFunLink § Humour § Jobs § Meme § News § Politics § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Friday Fun Link – Inside The World Trade Center (1999)

Posted 11 September 2020 § FridayFunLink § MemoryLane § News § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Saturday Snap – Camping Wrap-Up

Technically I took this photo yesterday but we spent most of the weekend at our seasonal campsite cleaning up after another great year so I’m counting it as my “Saturday Snap” photo this week…

Posted 05 September 2020 § Family § MemoryLane § Shea § Travel ‡ Comments (0) °

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Coteau Books Board of Directors (January 2016)

I joined the board of Coteau Books in early 2012 but this photo of the board is from January 2016. Coteau entered bankruptcy earlier this year so this is from happier times and what happy times they were. During my many years on the Coteau board, I met such a wide range of great people […]

Posted 28 May 2020 § Jobs § MemoryLane § Photo § PopCulture § Saskatchewan § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Saturday Snap – Drive-Thru (Our Grille) [Content May Disturb Some Viewers]

I don’t do warnings on this blog very often but I know the photo shows a dead animal and so may bother some people. You’ve been warned. So anyhow, we went out to Weyburn all day yesterday.  Last fall, we applied for and received a transfer to a new seasonal campsite – bigger, closer to […]

Posted 16 May 2020 § Family § Photo § Randomness § SaturdaySnap § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Coteau Books Auction – May 20, 2020 #yqr #sasked #saskedchat #yxe #sask #sk

This had been a shitty year for me, even before the COVID pandemic hit. Coteau Books, which was a long-standing literary press in Canada for nearly half a century, and which I’d served on the board of directors of for nearly a decade, entered bankruptcy protection in late February. I’ll likely do a longer post […]

Posted 12 May 2020 § MemoryLane § News § PopCulture § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Music Monday – “Oh come back love, Oh come back love/The sun and moon refuse to shine/Since I’ve gone love, gone away love/This lonely girl has had no peace of mind”

“Fare Thee Well Love” – The Rankin Family

Posted 20 April 2020 § Canada § MusicMonday § News § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Crowded Concourse Before COVID (October 2016)

So weird to scroll through old pictures and see crowds of people in any of them. This was at the new Mosaic Stadium soon after it opened when they hosted a Rams game as a “test” event…

Posted 09 April 2020 § MemoryLane § News § Photo § Randomness § Saskatchewan § Sports § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,