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My Take on the Calgary Flames Season

Sharing my insight about the Flames’ season with the good folks at CalgaryPuck (of note, there are only a handful of sites that both still exist and also pre-date when I began using the “Headtale” alias for every site I joined. CalgaryPuck, which I joined in 2002 soon after we moved to Calgary, is one […]

¶ Posted 06 April 2021 § Humour § Meme § Sports ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: alberta, hockey

Appalachian Man Interview – Elmer

“Soft White Underbelly” is a fascinating interview series on YouTube…

¶ Posted 31 March 2021 § Randomness § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, health, language, unitedstates

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 § Photo § Shea § Travel § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, holiday

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 § Photo § Politics § PopCulture § Randomness § Sasha § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, economics, education, health

Freedom To Read Week 2021 – Day Six – Friday Fun Link – How Different Would E.T. Be In The 21st Century? #ftrw

Shea and I have been showing the kids a lot of our favourite movies from when we were growing up – “Dirty Dancing” to “Adventures in Babysitting” to “Airplane!” – movies that both of us remember being allowed to watch by our parents at relatively young ages with no censorship or restrictions (*maybe* I’d […]

¶ Posted 26 February 2021 § Canada § Censorship § Family § FridayFunLink § MemoryLane § News § Pace § PopCulture § Sasha § Saskatchewan § Shea § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, freedomtoreadweek, history, movies, parents, saskatchewan

Saturday Snap – Our Only Visit To Mexico During Covid…

Buy a six pack of Sol at the liquor store, some limes at the grocery store, and put beach videos on the TV. 🙁 (But hey, at least we’re being safer than overly entitled snowbirds!)

¶ Posted 13 February 2021 § Humour § MemoryLane § Photo § SaturdaySnap § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: allinclusive, Covid, holiday, travel

FutureMe: Letters To The Future

I recently heard about this site that lets you write letters to yourself at some point in the future. The idea is for teachers to use it with students, grandparents with grandkids, spouses to each other or pretty much any combination you can think of. You have the option to make your letter public but […]

¶ Posted 01 January 2021 § Family § Internet § PopCulture § Randomness § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: health, history

The Covid Continuum

As Saskatchewan adds more restrictions, mostly on retailers in the post-Christmas period, I’m thinking a lot about how everyone is somewhere different on what I think of as the “Covid Continuum”. I’d say the range for this starts with anyone who’s absolutely minimized their outings since March – maybe only leaving the house to buy […]

¶ Posted 26 December 2020 § Family § List § Photo § Saskatchewan § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, health, language, parents, saskatchewan

“I told him I strongly recommend wearing it but…”

¶ Posted 25 November 2020 § Humour § Meme § Politics ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, education

Anti-Maskers Throw Tantrums Nationwide

It’s so weird that the kids who used to cheat off the smart kids to pass science classes now yell “Do your own research!” as they claim to be experts in infectious diseases based on some Facebook memes, YouTube videos and reading a bunch of unreliable web sites.