by Sbexon | Feb 18, 2026 | Community, Finances, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Parenting, Retirement, Wellness
It was taking a bit of a risk asking Charlie Stuart what she thought I should do as a challenge to myself as I approach my 65th birthday. She’s a bit of an intimidating eight year-old, after all, having been written up in the Red Deer Advocate for her generous...
by Sbexon | Feb 12, 2026 | Retirement
Is all the bad news getting you down? I mean, understandably so. We are witnesses to a frightening shift in the world and there doesn’t seem to be anything we can do about it. But are we getting the whole news picture? What if it really is true that the media...
by Sbexon | Feb 4, 2026 | Retirement
I happened to be sitting on my couch with an afternoon cup of tea right at ‘after school time’ recently. A little movement caught my eye out the window and I looked up from my book to see a young boy intently holding a remote control as he prodded a small toy car down...
by Sbexon | Jan 29, 2026 | Community, History, Lifestyle, News, Wellness
Was there ever a Furby in your house? Did you ever wrap a thick blanket around it and stuff it into a box deep, deep in the cellar? Because those darn things looked harmless, but they would wake everyone up by squawking and yelling unbidden in the middle of the night....
by Sbexon | Jan 21, 2026 | Community, Lifestyle, Tips, Wellness
Me and 55,000 fellow Albertans have been contributing our insights and our bodily fluids to a massive research project for the last 25 years! The Alberta Tomorrow Project (ATP) is a large-scale research study, involving men and women aged 35 to 69 from across the...