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Saturday Snap – If This Isn’t Nice, I Don’t Know What Is

Vonnegut was the master and, along with George Carlin and John Lennon, one of the people who’s probably influenced my worldview the most… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sn6ru7FaQn

¶ Posted 27 January 2024 § Charlie Echo § Family § Photo § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, philosophy

Friday Fun Link – The Surprising Pattern Behind Colour Names Around The World

Cool video my son told me about…

¶ Posted 26 January 2024 § FridayFunLink § Pace § Randomness § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: history, science

Friday Fun Link – What Did We Get Stuck In Our Rectrums Last Year?

It’s the most wonderful time of the year…

¶ Posted 05 January 2024 § FridayFunLink § Humour § Meme ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, health, holiday, science

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – For Weddings and a Funeral (August 2008)

Hard to believe that fifteen years ago we were at Shea’s cousin’s wedding and took this photo of three girls (also cousins) she’d basically raised from babies with our baby. Sadly, the last time we would see the sister on the left was at the sister on the right’s wedding earlier this summer. She was […]

¶ Posted 14 December 2023 § Family § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § Sad § Shea § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: health, parents

Happiness Hacks

There’s some irony that I’m posting this on my blog from my laptop computer given the last line…

¶ Posted 12 December 2023 § Infographic § Meme § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, food, health, science

Are We (Finally) Coming Out of Covid? Probably Not But Also Maybe?

I haven’t written a lot about Covid lately but it’s interesting to reflect on how our attitudes and therefore, our language, changes. For instance, I have started saying “Coming out of Covid” to refer to our current situation and as a reflection of what I see in wider society – very little masking (including myself […]

¶ Posted 05 December 2023 § MemoryLane § News § Politics § Sad § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, economics, health, language

Secular Sunday – Bamboozled

¶ Posted 26 November 2023 § SecularSunday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: atheism, education, history, science

Secular Sunday – History of Israel-Palestine Conflict

Everyone has an opinion on the Israel-Palestine conflict as do I. But I’ll only share two thoughts – I feel for the people on *both* sides of this conflict and I hate that its religion underpinning the conflict (and has been for four thousand years, not one hundred which is the lens most commentary takes.)

¶ Posted 15 October 2023 § Humour § News § Politics § SecularSunday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, history

Secular Sunday – Least Religious Countries Are…

…the most peaceful for some reason.

¶ Posted 01 October 2023 § Canada § Infographic § News § Politics § UK § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: atheism, science

Wisdom Wednesday – Actions, Not Words

I’ve been thinking about actions vs. words a lot lately. One of the things that really brought home this important distinction was when I had to leave the Regent Place branch of Regina Public Library after eight years as Branch Head following a re-org of supervisors and managers. It was a pretty emotional time and […]