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Amazon Prime Is An Economy-Distorting Lie

I’m trying as hard as I can to avoid buying from Amazon as I’ve grown to *really* dislike their business practices – from how they treat workers to resellers engaging in fraud to simply the fact that Jeff Bezos does not need one more penny of my money. I mean, Wal-Mart is a shitty employer […]

Posted 02 June 2021 § Internet § Jobs § Library § News § Politics § PopCulture § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Friday Fun Link – Finding A Book When You’ve Forgotten Its Title

NYPL has a pretty cool article about how to find a book when you’ve forgotten its title.

Posted 28 May 2021 § FridayFunLink § Internet § Library § PopCulture § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – “I’m Ready for My Curbside, Mr. Dewey!” (March 27, 2021)

This was one of the last pictures I took two months ago to the day on Saturday March 27, 2021 as Regina Public Library prepared to once again close our branches the following day as Covid was spiking in Regina and area. And just like when we shut down in March 2020 “a week or […]

Posted 27 May 2021 § Internet § Library § MemoryLane § Photo § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Eric Carle, Author of “The Hungry Caterpillar” Among Many Other Classics, Has Died

Very sad news. We had a “Hungry Caterpillar” themed birthday when Sasha turned one that was a huge hit – great decorations (mostly homemade or from the Dollar Store), a “Hungry Caterpillar” dress ordered off Etsy, and her (at the time) five year old brother even did a reading of “The Hungry Caterpillar” using a […]

Posted 26 May 2021 § Baby § Family § Library § MemoryLane § News § PopCulture § Sad § Sasha ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Happy For Books (May 2010)

Hard to believe this little guy is about to turn 14 in a couple weeks…

Posted 06 May 2021 § Family § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § PopCulture § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

RIP Mick Burrs (Steven Michael Berzensky) 1940-2021

PICTURES OF THE DEAD (from “Dark Halo”) The dead leave us only images of themselves: souvenirs in washed out colours, dried petals pressed in family albums, shadows that stain our papered walls.  They abandon us in our rooms, teach us how to converse with dust, will not let us forget them. But in our glistening reeds […]

Posted 25 April 2021 § Jobs § Library § LibrarySchool § MemoryLane § Photo § Sad § Saskatchewan § Travel § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

Friday Fun Link – The Big Library: Books About Basic Income

This idea is growing in awareness and after the rush to create CERB a year ago, more and more people are seeing the benefit of some form of a universal guaranteed income. This is a great list of books to learn more about different aspects of the idea.

Posted 09 April 2021 § Jobs § Library § News § Politics § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

Saturday Snap – Reading Science Books = Future Astronaut?

Sasha’s pretty obsessed with this True/False book about the planets.  Future astronaut confirmed! 😉

Posted 06 March 2021 § Family § Photo § PopCulture § Sasha § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Freedom To Read Week 2021 – #FTRW – Day Seven – Saturday Snap – My 2021 Library #FTRW Display

  I always enjoy trying to come up with something creative for a FTRW display at my library and this year was no different. Going back to what I said earlier in the week (in a post that had a display we did just as Covid was starting to turn towards pandemic status in early […]

Posted 27 February 2021 § Censorship § News § Politics § PopCulture § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Freedom To Read Week 2021 – Day Five – Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Calgary #FTRW Committee Council Presentation (February 2004)

Through my work with the Writers Guild of Alberta, I became involved with the Calgary Freedom to Read Week Committee.  I can’t find it online now but my memory is that this committee of writers, librarians, publishers and social activists was formed after some MLA held up some book in the Alberta Legislature to denounce […]

Posted 25 February 2021 § Censorship § Jobs § Library § MemoryLane § News § Photo § Politics § ThrowbackThursday § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,