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Category: Life Musings

  • Can People be Taught to Think?

    I remember years ago working with a school administrator who was consulting his community about introducing a new form of education delivery. It really was not all that new and it was not really that revolutionary; the key change was that students would be (gasp) encouraged to think for themselves. The proposed delivery model was…

  • Early Registration for Lunch with Santa

    Who are these people who are already booking their kids into ballet classes for the fall and, get this, Christmas Lunch with Santa! The lunch with Santa event already has 8 kids registered. Well, actually ten now that our kids are registered (I suppose this means my Sweetheart is one of those people). The surprising…

  • My Early Impressions of Google+

    Like many people I have joined Google+. The thing is, I am still not too sure what to do with Google+. Is it the new Facebook or the new Twitter? Is it a combination of the two? Or is it something so completely new it can not be compared to either Facebook or Twitter? You see…

  • Travelling with Toddlers

    I honestly do not know how people travel with toddlers while holding onto their sanity. On the weekend my Sweetheart and I travelled via Skytrain from the suburbs to the Waterfront Station and I’m telling you, by the time we got off the train in Vancouver I was seriously tempted to go over to the Hotel Vancouver…

  • Mowing

    My apologies for not posting recently. I have been out back mowing the lawn.

  • Pedestrian Arrogance in Vancouver

    I was listening to Bill Good on CKNW this morning. He was taking calls from people on the topic of pedestrians and their inability to appreciate the fact that any car or truck on the road has the “right-of-weight” when it comes to pedestrian-vehicle interactions. And for the first time in a long time, I…

  • Uncomfortable New Social Phenomena

    There is what I believe to be a relatively new to the Westcoast and very unpleasant social phenomena going on that I am not at all comfortable with; people who walk towards you and do not move aside or make any effort to go around you who therefore walk right into you. My Sweetheart and…

  • A Complicated Life With Little Ones

    I thought that my life with twin toddlers was complicated; wow, was I wrong. Case in point, yesterday I asked two buddies to drop by and have a short visit (my secret agenda was trying to get them to bring me a cuppa Starbucks). You see, yesterday was the final day of a week of…

  • How to Make Friends and Influence People 101

    The girls and I had a kind of funny, amusing situation in the park today. See, when it comes time to leave the playground the girls are very vocal at voicing their displeasure. Some old fart walking by was looking a little too long in my direction so I piped up, “What’s up old timer.”…

  • Click the “Like” on Facebook

    Be forewarned, this blog entry is a more of a rant than anything else. As some of you may know, Stacey Robinsmith dot com has a bigger, but younger brother, The Left Coast dot ca. I started my first blog, Stacey Robinsmith dot com, way back in October of 2004. It was all about provincial…