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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: alberta, book, health, television

Friday Fun Link – God, I Miss Jon Stewart

Luckily, he’s living under Stephen Colbert’s “Late Show” desk… (Oh, and here’s a summary of 25 of Trump’s biggest lies, exaggerations and misrepresentations from his convention speech last night.)

¶ Posted 22 July 2016 § FridayFunLink § Humour § MemoryLane § PopCulture § United States § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: economics, history, television, unitedstates

@BernieSanders Endorses @HillaryClinton. Now What?

So today, contrary to his vow to take his battle to the Democratic National Convention, Bernie Sanders finally endorsed Hillary Clinton after his team managed to help develop what is being called the “most progressive Democrat platform in history” with one notable element being a compromise on free college education for families making under $125,000 […]

¶ Posted 12 July 2016 § News § Politics § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: economics, history, unitedstates

National Capital Commission Shuts Down Children’s Lemonade Stand, Teaches Valuable Lesson?

As we walked into the Canada Day Festivities the other day, I remember thinking how cool it was to see so many kids setting up lemonade stands in their yards along the road leading to Wascana Park – learning about entrepreneurship, customer service, being out in the sun instead of inside playing video games. Then, […]

¶ Posted 03 July 2016 § Canada § Jobs § LibrarySchool ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: economics

Saturday Snap – Fairy Garden

Sasha checking out the fairy garden her mom made her…

¶ Posted 18 June 2016 § Family § Photo § Sasha § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: cute

~ Swirl ~ (A Poem About How The Orlando Shootings Gave Double Meanings To Everything This Weekend)

(I started writing this Sunday night but didn’t finish until Monday. I’m backdating it to be a Sunday post though as that seems most appropriate given Sunday’s incredibly tragic events.) ~ Swirl ~ Thursday My library staff do a tour of the local Muslim school. We observe prayers. We learn to say “library” in Arabic. […]

¶ Posted 12 June 2016 § Library § MemoryLane § News § Politics § PopCulture § Saskatchewan § United States § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: economics, health, history, language, music, unitedstates

A Math Puzzle That Went Viral in Japan

So I saw this on Facebook then looked up a more detailed explanation on YouTube to try to understand why this is getting so much attention. I’m not sure if it’s true or not but they say that something like 90% of people who went to school in the 1980’s could solve it but only 60% […]

¶ Posted 11 May 2016 § Internet § Meme § MemoryLane § Randomness § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Music Monday – “Time came a-creeping, oh, and time’s a loaded gun/Every road is a ray of light/It goes on, time only can lead you on/Still, it’s such a beautiful night”

A young guy took photos of himself every day for five straight years to create this montage of a Coldplay song. Spoiler alert but since the thumbnail he picked gives it away anyhow, it appears that he came up with a pretty cool way to commemorate his undergrad years… “Life in Technicolour” – Coldplay