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Friday Family Link – “They shall not grow old”

No Friday Fun Link today. Instead, as I do every Remembrance Day, I will spend time thinking of my Grandpa Wally who drove a tank in Holland in WWII. But I’ll also take a broad definition of the term “Remembrance” and choose to spend time remembering my Grandpa Armour who was rejected for service because […]

¶ Posted 11 November 2011 § Family § MemoryLane ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: history, parents, saskatchewan

Saturday Snap – A Week of Proud Moments

On Thursday, Pace got his first stripe in karate moving from a white belt to…a white belt with a single red stripe on it. On Friday, he passed his swimming lessons and will now move from “Salamander” to “Sunfish”… And of course way back on Monday, Pace was easily the cutest tiger on the block… […]

¶ Posted 05 November 2011 § Family § MemoryLane ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: cute, health, sports

Music Monday – “I was working in the lab/Late one night/When my eyes beheld/An eerie sight”

Halloween rarely falls on a Monday but there are so many options for a Music Monday song, how do I choose? Well, start with one of the best ever…

¶ Posted 31 October 2011 § MusicMonday § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: music

Thanksgiving Genealogy

My mom’s taking a genealogy class so we spent quite a bit of time this weekend looking through her class notes, different web sites and reviewing the information she’d already gathered about her family. I’d taken a genealogy class in library school and had done quite a bit of research as well but mostly on […]

¶ Posted 09 October 2011 § Family § Library § MemoryLane § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: cool, history, parents

Friday Fun Link – This Is Why I’m Broke

Christmas is fast approaching and ThisIsWhyI’mBroke.com appears to be a site that will meet many of my gift-giving needs!

¶ Posted 30 September 2011 § FridayFunLink § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: cool, cute, economics, television, xmas

You Know You’re A Library Nerd When… (aka Hawaii Public Libraries)

I admit that I’m such a library nerd that sometimes when I’m bored and can’t think of something to look at on the Internet, I’ll just go to a random library’s web site to see what’s up, what they’re doing, how they present themselves. It’s especially fun to pick libraries that you expect to be […]

¶ Posted 15 September 2011 § Library § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: travel, unitedstates

Saturday Snap – Pace Goes Off The Diving Board

¶ Posted 10 September 2011 § Family § MemoryLane § SaturdaySnap § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: cute, saskatchewan, travel

Saturday Snap – Bad Parenting Example #289

Letting your child use an upturned picnic table as a playhouse when camping… 😉

¶ Posted 03 September 2011 § Family § MemoryLane § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: cute, travel

Time Travel, Being Violated By A Police Officer and An Early Hint o’ My Librarian Tendencies

We were at a wedding in my hometown about a month ago. Sitting at the table during the reception, I was chatting with one of the people I hadn’t seen in a long time but who had lived next door to our house for most of her years in Indian Head. She was a friend […]