Back from our trip to the States. Great time but as we traveled, I was continually reminded of a quote which I believe is from Gord Downie of the Tragically Hip: “One on one, Americans are some of the nicest people you'll ever meet. But as a group, they scare the hell out of me.” […]
Unless I can find an internet connection at the top of the Skyhawk, there likely won't be many posts for the next week as Shea and I are off on a trip around Lake Erie. Our itinerary includes to Toledo to see some family friends of hers, Cedar Point in Sandusky for the world's largest […]
I'm posting this mainly as a head's up to future students who might have an opportunity to be involved in this conference as a volunteer or in some other way (if you're brave, why not submit a proposal to present at the conference?) John Buschman is the closing plenary speaker and that's almost enough to […]
Turn around twice and after two days in Toronto, I'm off to Ottawa for the Canadian Library Association conference. I'm taking my laptop but not sure what the Internet situation will be like where we're staying so new blog posts may be sporadic until next week. The timing couldn't have been better – the one […]
Back from a couple days at Book Expo Canada in Toronto and here are some random thoughts… – if you've never been, how the Book Expo trade show works is basically you walk around a huge trade show (200+ exhibitors?) and all the publishers and other writing organizations have booths promoting their books, authors and […]
I'm off to Book Expo Canada on Sunday and Monday. I went once before in 1999 or 2000 and it was a blast – Jack Stoddart marched an elephant through the trade show area as a publicity stunt, I got my photo with what was, at the time, the world's largest book, I got a […]
For anyone who doesn't know how they're getting to the CLA conference in Ottawa next week, Shea did some research tonight and found that we can rent a mid-sized car (something like a Grand Am) for $256 with unlimited km that would fit 4 comfortably. We could also rent a 7-passenger van for $342 which […]
Just a couple shots from our KidLit class trip to Toronto last Friday. I don't know how the picture of JK Rowling's signature at the Osbourne Collection got on my digital camera because you're not allowed to take photos there! And a bonus image: the best use for an air conditioner…
Christina and Jonathan came over a couple weeks ago for drinks and one of the topics of conversation was some of the differences we've encountered between Ontario and Saskatchewan. Since it's the May long weekend and that's one of the things that came up, I thought this would be a good time to list a […]
