Libraries are happy places… “Happy” – Pharrell Williams
“Copperhead Road” – Steve Earle
Williams riffing on libraries for the opening of the new San Francisco Public Library in 1999…
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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…
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
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 […]
