Musings
About retirement… and random other things!
These blogs first appear as weekly columns in the Red Deer Advocate
Preparing for the big milestone
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 stories have appeared in Chicken Soup for the Soul and other publications. She...
Time to deprogram myself
Okay, we’re two weeks into retirement and I’m hearing phantom text pings going off in the night. I’m accustomed to sleeping with my cell phone charging right beside me on my nightstand, having been one of the first people on an emergency contact list for work for the last decade and a half. Fortunately for me, the phone only alerted me to a...
Right place, just a bit late
Beautiful autumn colours in Central Park! 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 to celebrate the release of the new Stones album. Don’t worry, I’m not going to start ranting about my long-held fondness for The...