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Saturday Snap – Breastfeeding May Prevent Viruses (But Can Still Go Viral)

Shea recently entered a contest on Facebook run by a group who are trying to raise funds to create a breast milk depot in Regina (similar services exist in larger cities such as Calgary and Vancouver.) For the contest, a bunch of local breastfeeding advocates submitted photos of themselves and their babies into one of three […]

¶ Posted 13 September 2014 § Baby § Family § Internet § Library § Meme § Pace § Photo § Politics § Sasha § SaturdaySnap § Shea § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: cute, facebook

Music Monday – “We arrived in December and London was cold/We stayed in the bars along Charing Cross Road/We never saw nothin’ but brass taps and oak/Kept a shine on the bar with the sleeves of our coats”

Heard the very sad news today that John Mann of Spirit of the West has been diagnosed with early onset Alzheimers. Like many people who were college-aged in the 1990’s, Spirit of the West was basically a soundtrack to my life back then. When I went to England on exchange in 1995, the lyric I quoted in […]

¶ Posted 08 September 2014 § Canada § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Sad § Shea § Video ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: music

Sasha Smiling For A Good Cause

Shea’s entered a contest to raise funds and awareness for a breast milk drop-off location in Regina, a service our city lacks but desperately needs. To help her along, I volunteered to post a cute Sasha picture to Facebook for every 25 Likes Shea’s contest entry received. Here’s my first “Cute Incentive” picture…

¶ Posted 07 September 2014 § Family § Humour § Meme § Photo § Sasha § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: cute, facebook

Saturday Snap – Cobb Salad

I don’t post a lot of pictures of food but Shea created something magical the other night that needs to be documented…

¶ Posted 23 August 2014 § Photo § SaturdaySnap § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: recipe

Too Many Tabs Tuesday

Here are a few things that caught my eye this past week… What are the best new products nobody knows about? (Quora) How We Die – Then and Now: Comparing Causes of Death, 1900 v. 2010 (Infographic) What Radiohead Song Always Moves You To Tears? (Reddit) How Poverty Taxes The Brain (Infographic) Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” […]

¶ Posted 10 June 2014 § Censorship § Infographic § Jobs § Library § List § Politics § PopCulture § Randomness § Sad § Saskatchewan § UK § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: book, economics, history, music, philosophy, saskatchewan, science

Saturday Snap – #yqr Science Rendezvous

Shea took Pace and Sasha to ScienceRendezvous which was happening at the U of R on Saturday. This is a cross-country day celebrating science. At the U of R, all the various science faculties got together to do demonstrations for the general public. I was working but was able to run out to the Uni over my […]

¶ Posted 10 May 2014 § Family § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § Sasha § Saskatchewan § SaturdaySnap § Shea § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: cool, science

How To Be Happy: The Science Behind Happiness

¶ Posted 29 April 2014 § Infographic § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: science

Saturday Snap – One Year Check-up

Sasha enjoying her one year check-up with one of Saskatchewan’s best doctors…

¶ Posted 12 April 2014 § Family § Photo § Sasha § Saskatchewan § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: saskatchewan

“Friends and Family in the News” Edition

Saskatchewan Naval Commander Helps Drug Bust Victoria Divita, only the fourth woman in history to command a Canadian Naval vessel, is from Indian Head. I grew up with Victoria (though I knew her as “Vickie”), she was in my sister’s grade, a couple years younger than me, and in fact, her older brother was best […]