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Our daily bread

by Sbexon | Dec 2, 2025 | Community, Finances, Food and Recipe, Lifestyle, News, Parenting, Wellness

Did you buy a loaf of bread at anytime between 2001 and 2021? Maybe you made some French Toast on a quiet Sunday morning, or put together a peanut butter sandwich for your child’s lunch, or stuffed a festive turkey. If so, you should add your name to the Canadian...

Halloween manners

by Sbexon | Oct 30, 2025 | Community, Food and Recipe, History, Lifestyle, Nostalgia, Parenting

A long time ago when my daughter was out with the throngs of other young trick or treaters, there was a bit of drama on the Halloween route and I needed to vacate my candy-giving duties at our front door to go run interference. It was those tricky few years when they...

Little cakes pack big drama

by Sbexon | Oct 3, 2025 | Food and Recipe, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Retirement, Tips, Wellness

I had a really good idea a few weeks ago, but it involved the kitchen so in retrospect I should have ignored it completely. Why not try my hand at creating little strawberry-shaped cake pops, I wondered, as one does from time to time. In fact, why not make some every...

Challenge to self: don’t be stuck in my ways

by Sbexon | Apr 16, 2025 | Community, Food and Recipe, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Nostalgia, Retirement, Tips, Wellness

My friend from yoga showed me what my first ‘65th year challenge to myself’ should be. When I wrote the column about spending my 65th year putting forth a little monthly challenge to myself, I started wondering what the heck that would look like and what I would do....

Will you still feed me when I’m sixty-four

by Sbexon | Mar 26, 2025 | Community, Food and Recipe, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Nostalgia, Retirement, Wellness

How we used to laugh at those old Beatles lyrics way back when, feeling that the age of 64 was lightyears away. But I’m here now. Just turned 64 a few weeks ago and must say it has already caused a bit of confusion. It started when my dear school friend sent me a New...

Christmas Eve in Bethlehem

by Sbexon | Dec 24, 2024 | Community, Food and Recipe, History, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Nostalgia, Retirement

Forty-four years ago today, I spent Christmas Eve in Bethlehem. It was a night to behold, for sure, during a memorable winter that I spent working on a kibbutz in Israel. It was what young backpackers did at the time – when it got cold in Europe where everyone was...
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