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Happy Openly Secular Day! What is Openly Secular Day, you ask? Good question, fictitious reader! From https://openlysecular.org: The mission of Openly Secular is to eliminate discrimination and increase acceptance by getting secular people – including atheists, freethinkers, agnostics, humanists and nonreligious people – to be open about their beliefs. I can’t think of any times off […] →Read more
I knew that one of the days this month I was going to phone it in on a blog posting. And today is that day. Too busy finishing up tomorrow night ‘s lecture to write anything substantive here. But I have something to write about tomorrow, so hopefully I’ve have the energy to write that one […] →Read more
Hey, remember yesterday when I said of my mother: “Who knows where her world travels will take her next?” The answer was me and my sister. We knew where my mother’s world travels would take her next because we’d already booked a trip to take her to New York City as her birthday present! We […] →Read more
Today my mom is having a milestone birthday! I’m not going to say which one as the number, according to her “makes me want to throw up”. But as I always reply, “Turning [number redacted] is better than not turning [number redacted]!” Besides, it’s not how old you are, but how old you feel! And […] →Read more
More than 1,000,000 Canadians served in WWII. Only 61,300 of them are alive today and their average age is 92 years old (Source). The last Canadian veteran who served in WWI was John Babcock, who died on February 18, 2010 at the age of 109 years old (Source). My great grandpa Snow served in WWI. […] →Read more
Another insightful thing to read on this whole situation – this one written by my friend Patrick: Curses ((He originally posted it on Facebook, so I couldn’t link to it yesterday. But he got a lot of positive feedback on it, so he made it a blog posting.)). I’ll probably go back to my flippant writing […] →Read more
So I’ve been sitting here staring at an empty screen for a disconcertingly long time, trying to figure out what to write tonight. It seems I’m still speechless over yesterday’s US election results, but I can’t possibly write about anything else. I don’t usually write about serious things here ((Usually because it takes me time to […] →Read more
Watching the US election results. Don’t even have words… →Read more
Got my flu shot at work today. You should get a flu shot too, if you are able. Herd immunity FTW! →Read more
Last night I went to my first ever PechaKucha event! PechaKucha is a style of presentation where the speaker has a slide deck of 20 slides that automatically move along every 20 seconds. People can talk about anything that they are passionate about. It makes for fast-paced, entertaining talks and, since people can talk about […] →Read more