by Sbexon | Nov 14, 2023 | Community, Lifestyle, Parenting, Wellness
I fell again and it was on account of my dog again, but it wasn’t really his fault this time. We were roughhousing in the yard, going pretty hard in a game of chase, when we found ourselves running headlong into one another. Before we knew it, he had sideswiped my...
by Sbexon | Nov 9, 2023 | Community, Lifestyle, Retirement, Wellness
‘A beautiful autumn day in Central Park – the timing for this was perfect!’ I recently returned from a very nice vacation in New York. Oddly, I arrived just a few days after Mick Jagger and Lady Gaga surprised everyone with a little nightclub concert...
by Sbexon | Oct 31, 2023 | Lifestyle, Retirement, Wellness
Though I’m not going to win any good housekeeping awards, I do keep my place pretty tidy. But come fall, I turn into a bit of a cleaning beast. Scuttling along the floorboards with a spray bottle, shimmying between heavy furniture with a mop, slithering under beds...
by Sbexon | Oct 24, 2023 | History, Lifestyle, News, Retirement
When my former husband and I began talking about marriage in the mid-80s, we had the typical conversation to put everything on the table so we’d know what we were getting into. Not that it worked well in our case, but what is fascinating to me now is that my poignant...
by Sbexon | Oct 17, 2023 | Community, History, Lifestyle, News, Retirement
‘The whole family at The General Hospital Christmas party in 1961 – I’m the chubby baby on Mom’s lap.’ It’s been 25 years since an implosion brought down the Calgary General Hospital and felled that cornerstone of Calgary’s north. I’ve...
