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How Do You Make Santa Real For Your Kids?

This is a question I posed to MetaFilter last year and am now revisiting this year. (I was reminded of that question after seeing a recent one about creating Christmas traditions for your nieces and nephews .) This is, by far, the most favourited comment in that thread: When I was four, my parents totally rigged […]

¶ Posted 28 November 2012 § MemoryLane § Pace § Sad § Wisdom § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute, holiday, parents

Saturday Snap – Happy 60th Papa Dennis

¶ Posted 24 November 2012 § Family § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: parents

Saturday Snap – Other Than “Being Canadian” and Also “Being Five”, Pace is Totally Voting Obama!

This is the CBC story from the Regina Coronation Park & Democrats Abroad US Election viewing party last Tuesday. (You can also play “spot the Jason” and “spot the Shea” in the background of a few shots.) This is probably also a good place to record some recent Pace cuteness/genius moments: related to the election, […]

¶ Posted 10 November 2012 § Canada § Family § Pace § Politics § Saskatchewan § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute, history, saskatchewan, unitedstates

Friday Fun Link – Shea and I Are Expecting (You’ll Watch This Video We Made)

¶ Posted 26 October 2012 § Baby § Family § FridayFunLink § Humour § MemoryLane § Pace § Sad § Video ‡ Comments (1) °

Eulogy for Uncle Ken

Shea’s uncle passed away last week, rather suddenly after a year-long battle with cancer (that’s a weird way to describe it but that’s how it went.) Shea and I were honoured to be asked to do the eulogy by his widow and since we happened to be in Weyburn last weekend, we were able to […]

¶ Posted 17 October 2012 § Family § MemoryLane § Sad § Saskatchewan § Wisdom ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: health, language, parents

Google Street Views Now Allows You To View Underwater Locations Including Two In Hawaii

Google Street View (Ocean View?) now allows you to “swim” through various underwater locations including Hanauma Bay on Oahu where I fell in love with snorkeling as a kid and Molokini Crater which was one of many highlights during our Hawaii trip last January. View Larger Map View Larger Map

¶ Posted 16 October 2012 § MemoryLane § Technology § Travel § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, google, holiday, travel, unitedstates

Saturday Snap – One Word to Describe Each #skndpldr Candidate (and the Past Leader Each Most Resembles)

We’re in Weyburn this weekend visiting Shea’s family and had to make a visit to Creelman today since her uncle has just passed away and his wife has asked me to do the eulogy. Since I was already halfway there, I decided to carry on to Arcola where, in addition to the Cannington NDP AGM, […]