Shea and I at Point Pelee, Ontario, the southernmost point in mainland Canada…
I have all my photos on ThisLife.com and they’ve started sending a weekly “This time x years ago, you were…” e-mail. This week’s was particularly memorable as it outlined that eight (!) years ago, I was taking pictures of a little stick with a plus sign on it – our absolute first introduction to Pace! […]
When I was in library school, one of the things that happened at the start of each semester was a mixer with current students and the new crop of future librarians. I remember one of these sessions on the patio of the Grad Club when I ended up sitting next to Barb Janicek. She struck […]
This is probably not a great thing to admit to while not only doing a lot of writing about but also heavily volunteering for one of four NDP leadership candidates here in Saskatchewan. But I have to admit that if I still lived in Calgary Centre, I’m fairly certain I’d be voting for the Green […]
Tuesday night after a long weekend in a sleepy government town isn’t the easiest sell so it was a small crowd. (“How small was it, Jason?” Well, there was a bigger crowd when I saw Roger play in a friend’s garage in Calgary ten years ago.) But I still enjoyed the show – after a […]
As the person who uploaded this video observes, it’s amazing how Fred Eaglesmith can go from hilarious to heart-ripping in a second. This is one of my favourite songs of his… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcbSUyHX4yg
One of the pages I lost when my old blog disappeared was a page I created back in 2006 which had some of the background and criteria as well as winners, nominees, bios and even some photos for UWO’s “Spirit of Librarianship” Award in the MLIS program. I still have the page where all this […]
Behold the wonder that is former Fred Eaglesmith sideman, Washboard Hank…
No, that post title is not a joke. (Well, mostly not a joke.) The reality is that I’m only slightly ashamed to admit that I find Justin Bieber and his recent rise to stardom fascinating. There’s the fact that he’s from Woodstock, ON, just down the road from London. [Edit: I’m obviously not *that* fascinated […]
Everybody's probably familiar with the sad story of Tori Stafford, the young girl from Woodstock, Ontario who was abducted and killed last year. Recently, some new detail has apparently come to light but the judge has imposed a publication ban meaning no Canadian media can cover this aspect of the trial. The traditional media aren't […]
