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Cops & Readers: The Coles Notes Version

About a year and a half ago, Chief Evan Bray of the Regina Police Service was my branch’s celebrity reader for Family Literacy Day. At the end of the event, he said he’d enjoyed it and hoped the police and library could work together more in the future. I mentioned his comment to a couple […]

¶ Posted 22 May 2019 § Jobs § Library § Photo § Saskatchewan § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: book, education, saskatchewan

Opinion vs. Empathy

¶ Posted 21 May 2019 § Meme § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: education, philosophy

Music Monday – “I want you, I need you/But there ain’t no way I’m ever gonna love you/Now don’t be sad/’Cause two out of three ain’t bad”

If I post a single song from Meatloaf’s “Bat Out of Hell” album, I feel like I should post every song from the album since they’re all so interconnected. But instead, I’ll just post a few of the album’s biggest tracks instead of a single song I usually do for “Music Monday”. (And as a […]

¶ Posted 13 May 2019 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: youtube

Ramadan Library Display

I’m a big believer that you should hire the most qualified person for any job you have (with minor exceptions – for example, I’ve passed on interviewing someone with a masters degree for a half-time page position because I was fairly certain they would move on – and they soon did from the branch that […]

¶ Posted 07 May 2019 § Canada § Saskatchewan § Travel § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: education, history

Music Monday – “Don’t fill out any forms/Don’t compensate/Don’t cower/Don’t crawl/Don’t come around late/Don’t hover at the gate”

“Numb” – U2

¶ Posted 06 May 2019 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Randomness § UK § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: cool, music

Saturday Snap – A Little Leprechaun Indeed! ;-)

Sasha recently presented us with this piece of artwork which required us to very delicately sit her down and have her talk us through some of her artistic choices. The blue hair, the dangly gold earrings, the check-mark smile and oh, by the way, what is that picture on the front of the shirt? “It’s […]

¶ Posted 04 May 2019 § Censorship § Family § Humour § Photo § Sasha § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: cute

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – How Did I Get Here? – #7 – Not-For-Profit Cultural Sector

Like a lot of people who convocate with a Bachelor’s degree, the biggest question is “Now what?” In 1996, I had an expensive English degree, a specialization in creative writing, and not a lot of other options. (The other big question you get asked, especially with an English degree is: “Are you going to be […]

¶ Posted 04 April 2019 § Jobs § Library § List § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Saskatchewan § ThrowbackThursday § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: alberta, book, economics, education, saskatchewan

Music Monday – “There’s the progress we have found (when the rain)/A way to talk around the problem (when the children reign)/Building towered foresight (keep your conscience in the dark)/Isn’t anything at all (melt the statues in the park)/Buy the sky and sell the sky and bleed the sky and tell the sky”

This song is usually interpreted as being about acid rain but on the day Saskatchewan (and three other provinces) has a federal carbon tax enacted, I thought it was appropriate… “Fall On Me” – R.E.M.

¶ Posted 01 April 2019 § Canada § MusicMonday § News § Politics § PopCulture § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: economics, education, health, history, saskatchewan, weather

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – How Did I Get Here? – #6 – Comedy

After another week away from this series (honestly, I forgot I was doing this “How I Became Me” series last week after working a 1-9pm shift and, as I often do, whipping off a zero-effort post to keep my daily post streak alive instead of doing something a bit more in-depth and time-consuming.) Anyhow, […]

¶ Posted 28 March 2019 § Humour § List § MemoryLane § PopCulture § ThrowbackThursday § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: parents, travel

Friday Fun Link – “Any time you win five Stanley Cups, there’s a certain amount of mess that comes on the tail end of that.”

The only thing that’s made the Flames’ amazing season better is watching the ongoing dumpster fire that is their provincial rivals, the Edmonton Oilers, not just this year but over the past ten years. The smugness and arrogance in this clip from Oilers’ Old Boys Club management is an oldie but a goldie (oh, and […]