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Secular Sunday – What Does Your Faith Exempt You From?

There are a few (very few!) medical exemptions I can understand for not getting the vaccine – if you are allergic to something in the vaccine, if you had a serious reaction/event after your first shot and, uhm, not much else? But I’ve never understood being exempted on religious grounds. Even if you believe in […]

¶ Posted 10 October 2021 § Meme § News § Politics § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: atheism, Covid, education, science

Secular Sunday – Pastor Who Kept Church Open During Pandemic Dies of Covid

If you believe in mythology, it’s a lot harder to believe in science… (And honestly, I picked one random example but there are dozens if not hundreds of examples from across North America and around the world where religious leaders are playing a role in making the pandemic worse by giving bad advice to their […]

¶ Posted 12 September 2021 § Humour § Jobs § SecularSunday § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: atheism, education, health, science

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Skype Stitches (September 2013)

Pace was doing video calls long before it was cool – in this case, we needed a video call to show off his first stitches to Grandma and Grandpa.

¶ Posted 02 September 2021 § Family § Humour § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: health

Music Monday – “He’s brown as a berry from ridin’ the prairie/And he sings with an ol’ western drawl/Ooh-ooh-ooh-doo-di-di/Singing his cattle call”

“Cattle Call” – Eddy Arnold RIP Lloyd Thompson (1942-2021)

¶ Posted 26 July 2021 § Family § MusicMonday § Photo § Saskatchewan § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music, saskatchewan

Glad I’m Not That Guy! ;-)

Always sad to hear libraries that are facing great challenges.

¶ Posted 06 July 2021 § Jobs § Library § News § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education

Secular Sunday – Shining A Light

Powerful image of 751 solar lights during a vigil to recognize the children found in unmarked graves at Cowessess First Nation…

¶ Posted 27 June 2021 § Canada § News § Photo § Politics § Saskatchewan § SecularSunday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, history, saskatchewan

Secular Sunday – Love Thy Neighbour

¶ Posted 20 June 2021 § Canada § News § Politics § Saskatchewan § SecularSunday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, history, saskatchewan

Secular Sunday – Residential Schools: A Timeline

*Literally* the first words of this timeline discuss the central role of various churches in the creation of schools that took Indigenous children from their parents, communities and culture. For more than two hundred years [from 1600-1800], religious orders run mission schools for Indigenous children, the precursors to the Government of Canada’s residential school system.

¶ Posted 06 June 2021 § Canada § News § Politics § SecularSunday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: history

Music Monday – “I’m a white man living on a white man’s street/I’ve got the bones of the red man under my feet/The highway runs through their burial grounds…We’re all carrying one big burden, sharing one fate”

“White Man’s World” – Jason Isbell

¶ Posted 31 May 2021 § Canada § MusicMonday § News § Politics § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, history

Eric Carle, Author of “The Hungry Caterpillar” Among Many Other Classics, Has Died

Very sad news. We had a “Hungry Caterpillar” themed birthday when Sasha turned one that was a huge hit – great decorations (mostly homemade or from the Dollar Store), a “Hungry Caterpillar” dress ordered off Etsy, and her (at the time) five year old brother even did a reading of “The Hungry Caterpillar” using a […]