Pounding the heck out of this retirement thing

by Sbexon | Jun 23, 2026 | Career, Community, Lifestyle, Retirement, Tips, Wellness

There are substantial amounts of dossiers declaring the neuroscience behind the premise that many of us are getting retirement all wrong, and they are very convincing. We are addicted to being busy, we haven’t deprogrammed our ‘achiever brain’, we are caught in a...

Self-evaluation assignment led to a change of heart

by Sbexon | Jan 7, 2026 | Author, Career, Community, Finances, Lifestyle, Retirement, Tips, Writing

It’s a brand-new year – perfect time to reflect on the 365 days we’re leaving behind and gird our loins for the resolutions we are cornering ourselves into. Funny to have an old, recently rediscovered college assignment remind me that I used to thumb my nose at...

Small business owners believe anything is possible

by Sbexon | Nov 12, 2025 | Career, Community, Finances, Lifestyle, Tips

It was small business week a few weeks ago and I am more and more aware of what that means. Partly because I’ve recently been asked to do some freelance work for the Chamber of Commerce at a town south of Red Deer and I’ve been interviewing business people about their...

There is still great optimism in volunteering

by Sbexon | May 22, 2025 | Career, Community, History, Lifestyle, News, Nostalgia, Tips, Wellness

I had the privilege of attending the ‘International Year of Volunteers’ world conference in Amsterdam in January 2001. It was a monumental event – national committees from countries all over the world were there. Amazing guest speakers from the United Nations, Kings...

Challenge to self: slow down

by Sbexon | May 17, 2025 | Career, Community, History, Lifestyle, Nostalgia, Retirement, Writing

My second ‘65th year challenge to myself’ dawned on me slowly. Mostly because I was rushing around finishing projects before I met my friend for dinner prior to heading over to an antique typewriter display together – before all of which I had stopped for coffee with...

Oh, how my view of aging has changed

by Sbexon | Apr 10, 2025 | Author, Career, Community, Lifestyle, Nostalgia, Retirement

You know when you have a spare bit of time and you devote it to clearing out one of the storage bins so your kids don’t have to deal with all of it when you die? Sounds harsh, but that’s sort of how I view organizing the clutter these days. Thing is, statistically I...