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Music Monday – “Clap along if you feel/Like happiness is the truth”

Libraries are happy places… “Happy” – Pharrell Williams

¶ Posted 29 September 2014 § Humour § Library § MusicMonday § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music

Music Monday – “Well my name’s John Lee Pettimore/Same as my daddy and his daddy before”

“Copperhead Road” – Steve Earle

¶ Posted 22 September 2014 § MusicMonday § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music

Robin Williams’ Library Riffs

Williams riffing on libraries for the opening of the new San Francisco Public Library in 1999…

¶ Posted 21 September 2014 § Humour § Library § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) °

Saturday Snap – Breastfeeding May Prevent Viruses (But Can Still Go Viral)

Shea recently entered a contest on Facebook run by a group who are trying to raise funds to create a breast milk depot in Regina (similar services exist in larger cities such as Calgary and Vancouver.) For the contest, a bunch of local breastfeeding advocates submitted photos of themselves and their babies into one of three […]

¶ Posted 13 September 2014 § Baby § Family § Internet § Library § Meme § Pace § Photo § Politics § Sasha § SaturdaySnap § Shea § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute, facebook, health

Friday Fun Link – The “Scare Mommy” Game

Sasha’s current favourite game evolved out of the unfortunate fact that she currently thinks the noise all animals make is “roar”. “What does a kitty say?” Roar! “What does a horsie say?” Roar! “What does a froggie say?” Roar! And so on… Since she liked roaring so much, I started acting scared when she did it […]

¶ Posted 12 September 2014 § Family § FridayFunLink § Humour § Sasha § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute

Music Monday – “We arrived in December and London was cold/We stayed in the bars along Charing Cross Road/We never saw nothin’ but brass taps and oak/Kept a shine on the bar with the sleeves of our coats”

Heard the very sad news today that John Mann of Spirit of the West has been diagnosed with early onset Alzheimers. Like many people who were college-aged in the 1990’s, Spirit of the West was basically a soundtrack to my life back then. When I went to England on exchange in 1995, the lyric I quoted in […]

¶ Posted 08 September 2014 § Canada § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Sad § Shea ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: health, music

Pace’s First Day of Grade Two

Hard to believe Pace is in Grade Two already. As will probably become an annual tradition on the first day of school, I went back and watched the video I made of his first day in Kindergarten. I’ve always been somebody who loves taking pictures and videos and documenting things and that day, two short […]

¶ Posted 02 September 2014 § MemoryLane § Pace § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education

Music Monday – Fur Elise in Different Tastes

A man sits down to play a piano that’s been put at one of the gates at an airport in Prague. Other passengers who are waiting get a pretty good performance…

¶ Posted 01 September 2014 § MusicMonday § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music, travel

Music Monday – “Many colours are the jewels that sparkle/Many pleasures I will hold and embrace/Still for all that this world has to offer/It’s here that my heart will remain”

When pressed, I might call “Gone” by Greg Keelor my favourite album of all-time. Here’s one of the songs from that album… “Lucknow” – Greg Keelor

¶ Posted 25 August 2014 § MusicMonday § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music

Holiday Weekend Catch-Up

I took a couple days off on Monday and Tuesday to have an extended long weekend to go camping with Shea’s and my folks and to attend Shea’s cousin’s wedding. Which means I need to do another extended weekend catch-up of missed blog posts… Saturday Snap As mentioned, we went to Shea’s cousin’s wedding at […]