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...
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 | Dec 27, 2024 | Community, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Nostalgia, Retirement, Wellness
What fun to receive an invitation to join a senior’s choir, after a kind person named Jim read my November column ‘Just open up and sing’. I would be welcome to just pop into a group of singers who gather every Tuesday morning, he said. What have I got to lose, I...
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...
by Sbexon | Nov 20, 2024 | Author, Community, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Nostalgia, Wellness
Someone recently mentioned to me that they are feeling less confident about their writing and they figure it’s because of what they have come to read. This thought was shared by an incredibly successful entrepreneur who has a number of degrees and interacts with...
