What's happened to me? In two words, I am alive In another two, maybe four, words, I had the stomach flu. Whatever your imagination just told you, I can assure you it's correct and hellish. I like chicken soup in small quantities and Gatorade even less. I subsisted on both of them in the next-to-last week … Continue reading Emptied Out And In Full Swing
Author: Fatima
Music Monday: It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye To Yesterday by Boys II Men
I sat at my desk during my coffee break and noticed someone on Facebook tagged me in a post. We went to the same high school and the last couple of years I connected with people from those days. I don't connect with everyone, and they connected with people I have no interest in 'friending' … Continue reading Music Monday: It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye To Yesterday by Boys II Men
Rebranding or It’s Time For A Change
Call it a rebrand, a retirement, or an old-fashioned needed for a change. I changed the name of the blog from Stacks and Ranges to Scenes from a Life. I started my blog as a sandbox for writing with hopes to turn it into a library blog. I will write about libraries from time to time … Continue reading Rebranding or It’s Time For A Change
Music Monday: Olympic Anthems
I wanted to like Katy Perry's new song for the Rio games. I listened to it and my chest barely puffed up. It's only half inflated. I waited until the official music video. It's three minutes and seventeen seconds of Katy dragging around a pinkish parachute, a metaphor for I don't know how many cliches. … Continue reading Music Monday: Olympic Anthems
And I Will Write 500 Posts, And I Will Write 500 More
In blogging, much like my writing, I fly by the seat of my pants. Sometimes those pants are capris of many different colours, a good pair of blue denim, or in black. I have a germ and off I go. Rather than changing, I adjust much like an airplane makes its adjustments during take-off, landing, … Continue reading And I Will Write 500 Posts, And I Will Write 500 More
Long Weekend Supplemental
For a long time, people called the first Monday in August the Civic Holiday long weekend. Calling it the next-to-last long weekend would not fly with the public, so the holiday now bears the name Terry Fox Day. This same day also takes the name Heritage Day (Alberta) and Simcoe Day in Toronto. If you … Continue reading Long Weekend Supplemental
Music Monday: Consequence Free by Great Big Sea
Today I decided to feature a Great Big Sea song. The occupational downside of this task means I listen to some of my favourite tracks and whole albums. (It's not a disadvantage per say just in the interest of keeping me on track.) Many people in Winnipeg have seen them live more than once and … Continue reading Music Monday: Consequence Free by Great Big Sea
Frivolous Musings Between The Seriousness of This World
Like many people online, Brexit made me go 'WTF!' (The 'F' does not stand for 'fudgesticks'.) What floored me even more, despite witnessing many dumbass things during the Canadian federal election, were people saying, "I didn't know my leave vote will count" or some variation on that theme their vote means they will not leave … Continue reading Frivolous Musings Between The Seriousness of This World
Music Monday: Hold On by Alabama Shakes
So, bless my heart and bless my mind. I got so much to do, I ain't got much time So, must be someone up above saying, "Come on, girl! Yeah, you got to get back up! You got to hold on... Yeah, you got to hold on..." https://youtu.be/Le-3MIBxQTw
Reading In Progress: Voyager by Diana Gabaldon
It's my favourite story to tell from my bookselling days. An innocent instruction to a customer motivated me to read the book everyone talked about, Diana Gabaldon's Outlander. Long story short, during one of my early cash shifts at McNally Robinson Booksellers I told a customer the line-up began in the centre. The woman came to … Continue reading Reading In Progress: Voyager by Diana Gabaldon
Unpaused Life 