by Sbexon | Mar 21, 2023 | Career, Community, History, Lifestyle, Retirement
When I moved to Red Deer from a town down the highway, I was shown how to maneuver around the outskirts of the city each morning to avoid the traffic lights and the jostle of morning commuters (yes, there is a morning rush hour outside the major centres!). It was a...
by Sbexon | Mar 14, 2023 | Career, Retirement, Wellness
I know we get laughed at in Canada because, well, we’re Canadian. Living in igloos and such, as the saying goes in other parts of the world, and walking around my favourite urban pond the other day in minus 40 weather may well have proven their point. Except for the...
by Sbexon | Mar 7, 2023 | Career, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Retirement, Wellness
Nearing the end of my first full month of retirement, I decided to take a trip. Sounds a bit cliché, but my sister and her spouse are spending the winter in Mexico and asked me to come down. I scheduled a week in the sun, far from phones and the slight turmoil of...
by Sbexon | Feb 28, 2023 | Career, Retirement, Wellness
‘Okay, so I was a pretty cute four year old – just not too bright, since this is around the time I wandered around Sears not even knowing I was lost!’ When I was four years old, I got lost at Simpson Sears. Yes, Simpson Sears, which was a cultural...
by Sbexon | Feb 21, 2023 | Career, Golden Nuggets, Lifestyle, Retirement, Wellness, Writing
Sandy Bexon is the Advocate’s newest columnist. She has served as Communications Officer for Chinook’s Edge School Division for the past 15 years and worked in Communications at Olds College. She recently launched a new novel called Moving Mountains, and her short...
