Category: Life Musings
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Puzzling Situation at Starbucks
Last weekend, as we frequently do, my daughters and I met a good friend of mine at our local Starbucks for coffee and hot chocolate. At the Starbucks there is an entrance to where the lineup forms and then a “path” to exit after you have ordered your food or drink. It is all very…
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Snowpocalypse 2016; a Tip of the Hat to CUPE
After working his regular 8 hour afternoon shift at a school cleaning classrooms, washrooms, hallways and offices, one of my friends, a CUPE brother volunteered, like so many others, to come in to work the next morning at 5am to help clear snow and ice off the sidewalks and steps around and leading into the…
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Why I Don’t Use Tech In the Classroom
I often hear my teaching colleagues say things like, “I don’t use technology in the classroom because there was that time I did try it and it didn’t work.” Or, “I pressed a button and ALL my work disappeared and even my neighbour’s really tech-savvy son couldn’t get my work back!” Wow. Imagine if we took…
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Snow Day Driving Tips
Well, as it sometimes does, it has snowed in the Metro Vancouver area. Of course some areas of the city have been hit harder by the snow storm than others but if you need to drive, here are a couple tips to help keep you safe on the roads. First, if you didn’t have the…
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A Parent’s Bucket List
People often talk about a bucket list; those lists of things they want to get done before they “kick the bucket”. People often add stupid crazy or exotic things to their bucket list. They often add things like parachuting out of airplanes or visiting the Amazon or swimming with dolphins. Crazy stuff. However, as the…
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Buntzen Lake on a Rainy Sunday
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The Big Blog Move
So if you have landed on this page you have seen the big change that I have made; I have consolidated my blog activities to this one blog – Stacey Robinsmith dot com. As you may or may not know, this is the blog I started with so many years ago. At some point over…
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Changes are Coming
I have decided to make some significant changes to this blog. Today I’ll be meeting with my WordPress guru to begin the process. Stay tuned.
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An Amusing Quote
The following quote is frequently attributed to Mark Twain, however it is unclear who actually said it. When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned…
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What Those Signs Really Mean
As an observer of people and peoples’ behaviours, I have noticed something funny going on in our society; people do not seem to understand the meaning of some of the signs that are frequently posted around our communities. Even if we totally disregard the fact that very few drivers understand that a yellow traffic light…