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Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Three Obituaries

Usually Throwback Thursday is for a photo from the old days but I’ve got a collection of obituaries I’ve come across recently that I thought I’d discuss instead since all three send me down memory lane in different ways… Author, publisher, businessman and activist, Mel Hurtig, passed away yesterday. I never got to meet him […]

¶ Posted 04 August 2016 § LibrarySchool § MemoryLane § News § Politics § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: book, education, health, television

Friday Fun Link – The Tallest Building Between Winnipeg and Calgary

…and we were hanging out on top of it earlier tonight (though I know it’s hard to tell how high we are from the angle of this photo!)

¶ Posted 08 July 2016 § Family § FridayFunLink § Photo § Saskatchewan § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: cool, economics, parents, saskatchewan

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Writers Guild of Alberta: The First Thirty Years

Saw this posted on Facebook today – a history of the Writers Guild of Alberta’s first 30 years including one passing mention of myself as one of a handful of people who worked as coordinators of the WGA’s Calgary office over the years.

¶ Posted 23 June 2016 § MemoryLane § ThrowbackThursday § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Saturday Snap – Christmas Tree Update

We’ve had a blue and silver themed tree since we lived in Calgary when those colours fit into our condo’s young hip colour scheme. 😉 Now that we’re older and more mature, we thought it was finally time to change to a warmer colour scheme that better matched the colours in our home (also decorations were […]

¶ Posted 21 November 2015 § MemoryLane § Sasha § Saskatchewan § Shea § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: holiday, saskatchewan

Saturday Snap – Halloween Family

Last weekend in Medicine Hat…

¶ Posted 07 November 2015 § Family § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § Sasha § SaturdaySnap § Shea § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: cute, travel

Music Monday – “I know this isn’t what you planned for me/Mothers have hopes for their sons/Along with the shame/I have brought to the family/All I feel is the weight of the gun”

“Weight of a Gun” – Corb Lund Band

¶ Posted 24 August 2015 § MusicMonday § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: music

Fan-Made Stanley Cup Closing Montage

CBC used to do great montages during every game of the Stanley Cup Finals as well as after the series was over. Apparently they let the montage guy” go when they struck a deal to partner with Sportsnet but luckily a fan has taken up the challenge… (Also disappointed they didn’t do the “State Your […]

¶ Posted 16 June 2015 § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Sports § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: cool, hockey, music, television

Rookie Calgary MLA Is Early Victim of the “Human Search Engine”

An engaging article about the ability of humans, rather than machines (eg. regular Google searches), to track down and then amplify interesting or especially incriminating finds. I have been trying to help introduce the concept of “human search engine” (actually “human flesh search engine” in the original Chinese) to the English-language discourse: it arose a few […]

¶ Posted 27 May 2015 § Censorship § Internet § News § Politics § PopCulture § Technology § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: facebook, google, reddit, twitter

Flames Lose To Ducks And Are Out of #StanleyCup Playoffs To End Cinderella Season

As the NHL season came to a close, I kept telling myself that if they could just make the playoffs, that was more than anyone expected of the Flames this season. And they did that. Then I just wanted to beat their arch-rival Canucks in the first round. And they did that. Then I just […]

¶ Posted 10 May 2015 § Canada § MemoryLane § Sports ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: hockey

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Calgary Fire Department

The Calgary Flames have been using a Calgary Fire Department helmet for players to pick the “unsung hero of the game” after each victory for the past couple seasons. I don’t have a picture of Pace wearing a CFD helmet but I do have a pic of him checking out a fire truck courtesy of my […]