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Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Coteau Books Board of Directors (January 2016)

I joined the board of Coteau Books in early 2012 but this photo of the board is from January 2016. Coteau entered bankruptcy earlier this year so this

Five Reasons Libraries Should Begin Re-opening (and Five Reasons They Shouldn’t)

In a time of unprecedented challenges, the big debate in libraryland is how/when libraries should reopen. There are good reasons on both sides of the ledger but as

NHL Announces Reopening Plan!

There are still a lot of details to be worked out but the NHL has announced a very rough plan for what reopening would look like… season is

Throwback Thursday – Barn Board Accounting (April 1932)

This is pretty special – my dad was getting some barn boards from our farm to use in framing projects and found one where my grandfather had done

Music Monday – “Thought I was alone in the world/Until my memories gathered ’round me in the night/Thought I was strong/Until I finally had to fight”

Jason Isbell, one of the greatest living songwriters today, did a free concert to promote the release of his new album, “Reunions”, and though lots of artists are

QuaranTrim? Cutvid-19? Haired Immunity?

I’ve been joking about it since about week two of quarantine but as we head into the third month of quarantine, the family decided it was time for

Coteau Books Auction – May 20, 2020 #yqr #sasked #saskedchat #yxe #sask #sk

This had been a shitty year for me, even before the COVID pandemic hit. Coteau Books, which was a long-standing literary press in Canada for nearly half a

When Can Canadian Public Libraries Reopen? @librarianshipCA

I’ll likely do a longer post with some thoughts on how libraries across North America have reacted to the COVID crisis at some point and also some personal

Man Living Off-Grid In A Tent On An Island

If this whole COVID-thing gets *really* shitty, I can at least dream that this was an option for me as the marauding hordes stab me to death for

What’s The *Worst* That Could Happen In The World Due To Covid? (Revised)

Yesterday, I tried to do a post of all the worst-case scenarios for COVID-19 but I realised that I probably did too much commentary and I probably didn’t

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