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Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Is There A Giant Magnet Planted in the Street Outside Our House? (May 2012)

As hard as it is to believe, we’ve just had almost the same accident occur in the street in front of our house nearly four years apart. Four years ago in May, a hit & run driver smashed into our neighbour’s van which was parked on the street behind our car. His van was pushed into our […]

¶ Posted 18 February 2016 § Family § Photo § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, travel

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Shooting A Promotional Video

Six years ago, a colleague and I spent an afternoon shooting a promotional video about Regina Public Library for a local cable TV company…

¶ Posted 11 February 2016 § Library § MemoryLane § Photo § Work ‡ Comments (0) °

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Farewell CLA

The Canadian Library Association recently voted to wind down their operations so they can be re-born as a new “federation of associations” from across Canada and also to re-focus on what they do best (national voice for libraries = yes; conferences = not as much, especially when OLA is widely regarded as “the” Canadian library […]

¶ Posted 04 February 2016 § Canada § Library § LibrarySchool § List § MemoryLane § Photo § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, ontario, travel

Throwback Thursday – UWO’s Faculty of Information & Media Studies January 2006 MLIS Cohort

[Edit: I have no idea why I posted this on a Wednesday. I’ve fixed the date.] I’m still thankful that, ten years ago this month, a couple upper year students told me during my first couple weeks of library school that it’s more important to get a photo of the people you start the program with rather […]

¶ Posted 21 January 2016 § Humour § Library § LibrarySchool § MemoryLane § Photo § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, ontario, travel

Throwback Thursday – Kids in Cuba, 5 Years Apart (2011, 2016)

Pace in 2011… Sasha in 2016…

¶ Posted 14 January 2016 § Family § Pace § Photo § Sasha § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: allinclusive, cute, holiday

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – View From An #iberostarvaradero Beach Chair (Jan 2016)

You can even see the two scrapes on my shins detailed in yesterday’s post! 😉

¶ Posted 07 January 2016 § MemoryLane § Photo § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: allinclusive, holiday, travel

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Star Wars Christmas (sometime in the early 1980’s) & Friday Fun Link – “The Force Awakens” Random Thoughts

Not often I get to combine my Throwback Thursday and Friday Fun Link but after making a fairly spontaneous decision to go to a midnight showing of the new Star Wars movie last night, I thought posting this picture was a bit of both categories. I’ll try to keep it spoiler-free as I give a […]

¶ Posted 18 December 2015 § FridayFunLink § MemoryLane § News § Photo § PopCulture § Xmas ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: economics, history, movies, parents, xmas