Sasha bought me a Boba Tea with part of a gift card she got from Christmas at the end of a day of errands including visiting multiple art galleries like the highly cultured pair that we are! 😉 Fun fact: Boba Tea costs more at Mosaic Stadium than draft beer! (This is actually not a […]
No “Fun” post this week – only frustration… A great thread from Instagram about why teachers are walking out again on Monday, and why it is so important for teachers and folks who care about the quality of education in this province to stand up to the Sask Party. It’s too important to back down. […]
Looking for an old picture to feature for this week’s Throwback Thursday, I came across one of me standing in my in-laws’ kitchen in December 2011. What jumped out wasn’t that I didn’t have a terrible 90s-style goatee (which is my current look but also a Throwback Thursday in a way). Instead, it was that […]
I was in an OH&S meeting once where they were talking about buying walkie-talkies so staff could more easily communicate with each other in our large Central branch. One of the clerks spoke up and said “What sort of training will we get?” A high level manager could barely hide her distain as she replied […]
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 […]
Been thinking about this a bit lately in a variety of ways – the “controversy” over gender fluidity/Drag Queen storytimes/”grooming”, the notion of what constitutes “professionalism” as I wear jeans and a t-shirt to work every day while having the most rat-nesty beard this side of Santa Claus, and then the above thought I saw […]
I first heard this advice years ago when I was still in the role of Organization Development Specialist at Regina Public Library. In hindsight, I don’t think I appreciated what an amazing job that was to have right at the start of my library career. Our Director (still the same guy all these years later) […]
A guy I went to school with got a game published in Compute! magazine in the late 90’s (and got a $500 payday or something wild). These were the days were the code was printed in the magazine and you had to manually enter it to play the game. (I still remember my Grade Six […]
A long time ago, a colleague gave me a way to think of hiring that totally changed how I view the process of selecting a candidate. Before, I was just thinking “Who can best do this job?” but he pointed out that you’re not just hiring the person for the immediate job but potentially for […]
In my Wisdom Wednesday series, I’ll eventually do a post about the difference I see between what I call “black & white” thinkers and “grey area” thinkers. (Myers-Briggs has 16 classifications. True Colors has 4. Hamology basically only has 2!) One big aspect of this difference is that are those who think there are hard […]
