by Sbexon | Feb 5, 2025 | Community, History, Lifestyle, Nostalgia
I heard about my doppelganger long before I met her. Nicola is my distant cousin from Ireland and her uncanny similarities to me became a repeated theme among cousins in the ‘Canadian line’ who journeyed to the old country. When my mom and dad first set foot in...
by Sbexon | Jan 30, 2025 | Community, Finances, History, Lifestyle, Nostalgia, Parenting, Wellness
I recently heard the former purchaser for Harrods in London describing her epiphany that led to restraining herself to buying only five items this year. I realize that her life of stocking the shelves of one of the world’s exclusive shops is very different from mine –...
by Sbexon | Jan 23, 2025 | Community, History, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Nostalgia, Retirement
With the new year comes a milestone event – this will be my 45th year of graduating from high school. What a thought, what a long time ago, how old we all are now. All of us people who graduated in 1979 from a huge Catholic high school in Calgary. I graduated with...
by Sbexon | Jan 9, 2025 | Community, History, Lifestyle, Nostalgia
Remember when Cheers was a staple in living rooms across the nation throughout the 1980s? We were all enthralled with the humour, the setting, the handsome main actor. My sister, who was already living away by the time the series began in 1982, came over to the house...
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...
by Sbexon | Dec 18, 2024 | Community, History, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Nostalgia, Retirement, Wellness
There was a time when everyone was giving me scarves for Christmas. It was a strange phase, but they were all lovely and some were even handmade which made them even more special. I figured maybe I had reached that time in my life when I had become difficult to buy...
