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One Year Ago Today, Donald Trump Was Elected (And The World Was Never The Same)

MetaFilter’s Election Night Thread (uhm, trigger warning?) and a Second Thread That Opened After The First One Became Too Unwieldy As The Reality of What Was Happening Started To Hit People A Year Later, We’re Still Trying To Figure Out How Trump Won (Biggest Mistake Was Thinking He Couldn’t) What It’s Like To Watch The […]

Julie Payette Reminds Us We Live In A Universe Based On Fact, Not Opinion

Canada’s new Governor-General (and former astronaut) Julie Payette, created some controversy after her recent remarks at a science conference where she pointed out the absurdity of politicians still using their personal opinions to debate indisputable scientific facts such as the reality of climate change and the lack of similar evidence for beliefs such as astrology. […]

¶ Posted 07 November 2017 § Canada § Jobs § News § Politics § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: atheism, education, history, philosophy

Music Monday – “You know how we like to write nothing but hockey songs? Well, here’s another hockey song!”

If you’re still missing Gord Downie’s voice, his new solo record – a collection of 23 “Love Letters” to various people and places in his life, is pretty amazing and getting great reviews. A member of Facebook’s largest Tragically Hip Fan Group has also uploaded an hour and twelve minute montage of some of Gord’s […]

¶ Posted 30 October 2017 § Canada § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: hockey, music

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Mexican Beach Wedding (February 2003) #ThePalaceLife

So, for “family movie night” last weekend, Shea and I decided to hook up the video camera we bought back ~2002 but have rarely used lately (“Hey kids, that big boxy thing is what an iPhone used to look like!”) to show the kids our wedding video from Mexico in 2003. Pace watched about five […]

¶ Posted 26 October 2017 § Family § Humour § MemoryLane § Photo § Shea § ThrowbackThursday § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: allinclusive, holiday, parents, travel

Music Monday – “Well I kept right on driving/Until I hit the ocean/Found a small cantina down on Monterrey Way/I met up with a girl down there but she did not speak the English/I probably coulda had her too, but all I knew how to say was/Una mas cerveza por favor senorita” #ThePalaceLife

Watching lots of videos of our resort and someone used this song as the background for one of their videos… “Una Mas Cerveza” – Tommy Alverson

¶ Posted 23 October 2017 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Travel § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: allinclusive, music, travel

Saturday Snap – Garnish

Shea asked for a glass of wine last night and a garden carrot. I obliged…

¶ Posted 21 October 2017 § Humour § Photo § SaturdaySnap § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: cute

Gord Downie (1964-2017)

One of the Hip’s saddest songs, this was written after Downie’s young nephew died due to a heart ailment and famously not performed for fifteen years… Another heart-tugger, especially if you’re a parent, this one was written by Downie for his kids… The Tragically Hip song “Inevitability of Death” contains a reference to Terry Fox, […]

¶ Posted 18 October 2017 § Canada § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Sad ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: education, history, hockey, music

Music Monday – “Hold tight, Wait till the party’s over/Hold tight, We’re in for nasty weather/There has got to be a way/Burning down the house”

“Burning Down The House” – Talking Heads

¶ Posted 16 October 2017 § Politics § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: music

[My Internal Monologue Right Now]

There’s lots of stuff going on in the news and politics and the world and on social media that feels interconnected and important and I’d like to talk about some of this stuff too. But increasingly, I don’t know how to do that without offending someone. Or saying the wrong thing. Or being attacked for even having an […]

¶ Posted 15 October 2017 § Censorship § MemoryLane § News § Politics § Randomness § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: education, facebook, twitter

Friday Fun Link – Country Corner Donuts (and the Value of Immigrants) #yqr

I was scrolling through Facebook and came across a post by the good folks at Rebellion Brewing talking about a nearby donut shop which they frequent. (I love seeing locally owned businesses supporting each other like this!) That led me to a YouTube video of the donut shop’s owner which reinforced my strong belief that […]