Three years ago, I was placing second in our campground’s annual “Canada Day Decorating” contest. This year? Don’t really feel like decorating too much (though I did have a few ideas to subvert the contest but couldn’t find 751 orange helium balloons in time!) š At the risk of sounding like somebody on /r/entlightenedcentrism, I’m […]
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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…
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 […]
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 […]
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.Ā Or possibly people of the same generation – great aunts and uncles.Ā Elderly neighbours. Then, as you get older, the age of those dying, tends to get […]
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 SunĀ
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 […]