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Category Archives: Saskatchewan

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 § Sad § SecularSunday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, history, saskatchewan

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Sask Book Awards/Alberta Book Awards (multiple years from 1997 to present)

Tonight was the 2021 Saskatchewan Book Awards and I also recently found the 2021 Alberta Book Awards on social media. I spent nearly a decade in the literary non-profit sector and both served on the board of the SBA for a few years (as well as a frequent volunteer doing everything from taking tickets to […]

¶ Posted 24 June 2021 § Library § MemoryLane § News § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: alberta, book, education, saskatchewan

Secular Sunday – Love Thy Neighbour

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

Legends of Hockey: The New York Islanders

When I started following hockey as a young kid around the age seven or eight, the Islanders were the best team in the league. (Interestingly, I clearly remember friends who cheered for Boston, Toronto, Montreal, Chicago, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Philadephia but no one else seemed to have latched on to the Islanders which is another reason […]

¶ Posted 09 June 2021 § MemoryLane § News § Sports § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: hockey

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – The Camping Issue (June 2018)

¶ Posted 20 May 2021 § MemoryLane § Photo § ThrowbackThursday § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: holiday, saskatchewan

RIP Shane-o (1973-2021)

Overall, death tends to be pretty linear. The oldest people you know usually die first – I suspect grandparents are often the first human deaths most people experience. Or possibly people of the same generation – great aunts and uncles. Elderly neighbours. Then, as you get older, the age of those dying, tends to get […]

¶ Posted 18 May 2021 § Family § MemoryLane § Sad § Shea § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) °

Music Monday – “This is how you play/This is how you play/This is how you play/The lick”

A co-worker’s son is the bassist in this band… “The Lick” – People of the Sun

¶ Posted 17 May 2021 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music

Note To Self: Important Things To Bring For Your First Weekend Opening The Campsite

This blog post is basically a “note to self” for next year as between closing up last year on a beautiful day which had us very distracted (I think Shea even went out on the boat with her folks for part of the day!), not doing a good job of tracking what was put into […]

¶ Posted 16 May 2021 § Humour § List § Photo § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: camping, saskatchewan

Saturday Snap – Camping Season Officially Begins!

¶ Posted 15 May 2021 § Family § Photo § SaturdaySnap § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: camping, saskatchewan

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Echo Lake Summer (Summer 2017)

A video I cut of the many highlights of the first year we had a seasonal camp site at Echo Lake Provincial Park. A year of Covid really makes you appreciate all these little moments – having various family and friends to our campsite, shared meals, laughs around the campfire, sleepovers, meeting random strangers.