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Saturday Snap – Farewell to #PuntaCana #grandpalladium

Back from our week long holiday in the Dominican Republic and now the long sad process of unpacking and downloading all the pictures we took and catching up on neglected stuff at home begins. We’ll likely get a fuller album up on Facebook eventually but here’s one shot of us from the week taken by the […]

Posted 28 February 2015 § Family § Pace § Photo § Sasha § SaturdaySnap § Shea § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Weird Thoughts You Have While Flying

Very likely that there will be a week long blog holiday as we leave for the Dominican Republic tomorrow for a week’s holiday…

Posted 18 February 2015 § Family § Humour § Travel § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Travel Planning, Coincidence and (Another) Once In A Lifetime Experience

Recently, at my library, I delivered a program called “Trip Planning 2.0: How To Research Your Vacation Online” where I gave registrants a “guided tour” of some the most useful sites for trip planning, both well-known (Google, TripAdvisor) and lesser-known (Reddit, FourSquare). (The program was basically an expanded version of a blog post I did […]

Posted 17 February 2015 § Library § PopCulture § Technology § Travel § Video § Work ‡ Comments (5) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Music Monday – Bachata Dancers in the Dominican Republic

Posted 16 February 2015 § MusicMonday § Travel § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Our Tropical Vacation History

Some people go every year, some people go whenever they can afford it, and some people will never go to one, thinking they’re fake, inauthentic holidays. Shea and I are in that middle category – though we don’t go every year [edit: I lied – as of January 2020, we’ve been five years in a […]

Posted 12 February 2015 § MemoryLane § Photo § Sasha § Shea § ThrowbackThursday § Travel ‡ Comments (4) ° Also tagged: ,

The Dominican Republic

On our trip next week (next week!), I don’t think we’ll so much as leave our all-inclusive resort for a city tour or a catamaran excursion. But perhaps next time…

Posted 10 February 2015 § Family § Travel § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Maid of the Mist, Niagara Falls (Summer 2006)

Shea and I got to Niagara Falls a couple times during the year I spent in Ontario completing my MLIS.  This was during our summer visit…

Posted 08 January 2015 § Canada § LibrarySchool § MemoryLane § Photo § Shea § ThrowbackThursday § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Friday Fun Link – 10 Random Thoughts About Christmas This Year

At our house, Santa doesn’t wrap the presents.  This provides a few main advantages – makes things quicker to get set-up if you haven’t pre-wrapped the gifts, prevents awkward “Why does Santa use the same wrapping paper as mommy and daddy?” questions, and allows the kids to get an immediate jolt when they first glimpse […]

Posted 26 December 2014 § Family § FridayFunLink § List § MemoryLane § Pace § Randomness § Sasha § Shea § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

The True Meaning of Christmas That Everyone Forgets

Someone on my Facebook posted a rather profound article about how the arguments between “Merry Christmas” and “Happy Holidays” are misguided. The article points out the fact that our Christmas traditions have well-documented roots back to a pagan time, long ago, when people came together for a festival during the longest night of the year […]

Posted 25 December 2014 § Family § MemoryLane § Sad § Wisdom § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Saturday Snap – Our Christmas Card House

It wouldn’t put Clark Griswold to shame but I pulled up to our house the other day and thought it looked like something that might appear on the front of a Christmas card (one you get at the Dollar Store but still…) Having the tree right in front of the window is something different we’re […]

Posted 13 December 2014 § Photo § Sasha § SaturdaySnap § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: