by Sbexon | Mar 12, 2024 | Author, Career, Community, History, Lifestyle, News, Nostalgia, Writing
Have you ever received a message completely out of the blue from a person you strain with all your might to recall, but for whom you apparently wielded a gigantic influence? I’ve had old friends look me up and some thank you notes from work colleagues over the years....
by Sbexon | Feb 27, 2024 | Food and Recipe, History, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Nostalgia, Parenting, Wellness
I grew up in a home where cooking was predictable, unimaginative and meant to simply help everyone maintain their body weight. Mom didn’t waste too much time and energy on specialty dishes – and pasta was considered specialty, especially by my Irish father who only...
by Sbexon | Feb 13, 2024 | Community, Food and Recipe, History, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Nostalgia
— This pupcake has been my greatest success in the kitchen! — My brother has been a paramedic for nearly 35 years and when people ask him the grossestthing he has ever seen, he says ‘my sister’s cooking.’Now my rudimentary skills allowed me to keep my...
by Sbexon | Jan 30, 2024 | Community, Finances, History, Nostalgia, Retirement
There was a tiny ledge above the highest shelf of our kitchen cupboards growing up, where strange and unusual things were kept. Like the gallstones my mom brought home in a jar after her surgery in the 1970s, and the plastic-wrapped and yellowed top layer of their...
by Sbexon | Jan 3, 2024 | Community, History, Lifestyle, Nostalgia, Parenting, Retirement, Wellness
Christmas trees look so strange once Christmas is over, sitting there in the middle of the room all disheveled and dusty from their former glory days of a few weeks ago. They had risen again in triumph back then, in the month’s earlier days, to stand watch over the...
by Sbexon | Oct 24, 2023 | History, Lifestyle, News, Retirement
When my former husband and I began talking about marriage in the mid-80s, we had the typical conversation to put everything on the table so we’d know what we were getting into. Not that it worked well in our case, but what is fascinating to me now is that my poignant...
