by Sbexon | May 9, 2025 | History, Lifestyle, Nostalgia, Retirement, Wellness
I’m not exactly sure that what I purchase now is still considered lingerie. There was a long stretch of time in my life when acquiring comfortable undergarments was the last thing on my mind! I used to succumb to marketing and wore itchy uncomfortable lacy items for...
by Sbexon | May 1, 2025 | Community, History, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Nostalgia, Retirement
I was excited to pick up a copy of the recent Life magazine that was celebrating the 60th anniversary of The Sound of Music. Seeing that movie for the first time sixty years ago had broadened my tiny world ever so slightly. It was 1965, I was four years old, and my...
by Sbexon | Apr 25, 2025 | Community, Finances, History, Lifestyle, Nostalgia, Retirement
“Meet you at The Bay” was a regular refrain for me growing up. As a young teenager it was to the Market Mall location, where me and my friends would scrutinize the make-up aisle and spritz on their free perfume samples. Then there was always a mission to some other...
by Sbexon | Feb 27, 2025 | Community, History, Lifestyle, Nostalgia, Retirement
I have always found the action of sweeping my kitchen floors to be soothing, although by the third round of tending animal fluff in a day it can get a bit repetitive. I’m thinking it’s the gentle side to side rocking that’s relaxing, sort of like the motions we made...
by Sbexon | Feb 19, 2025 | Community, Finances, History, Lifestyle, Nostalgia, Retirement, Tips, Wellness
I’ve been humming the old Anne Murray song to myself a lot lately, because I love her music and because ‘We sure could use a little good news today’. As I write this, we are in a minus 40 deep-freeze, we are mad as hell about world chaos being caused by a single...
by Sbexon | Feb 13, 2025 | Author, Career, Community, History, Lifestyle, News, Wellness, Writing
I have spent several years of my life feeling slightly ashamed that I haven’t read Alice Munro. Notable Nobel Prize winning Canadian author – I wondered through the years what the disconnect was. I felt slightly intimidated at times and then quite disinterested at...
