by Sbexon | Dec 5, 2024 | Community, Food and Recipe, History, Lifestyle, Nostalgia, Retirement
Nothing shines a light on our family traditions much like Everything Christmas. When you stop to think about it some of them are pretty strange, and yet we hold onto all of them because that’s what everyone who gathers expects year after year. For instance, a bowl of...
by Sbexon | Nov 28, 2024 | Community, History, Lifestyle, News, Nostalgia, Wellness
November 5 will go down in history as a very sad day. It’s the day we learned of the passing of Chief Justice Murray Sinclair, this country’s exquisite example of the best in humanity. So many accomplishments in his lifetime, but for me it was his role as Chair of...
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...
by Sbexon | Nov 6, 2024 | Community, Lifestyle, Nostalgia, Wellness
The geese are honking their way through another autumn in droves. A whole swack of them flew right over me while I was walking the other night and, even though none of them uttered a sound, there was still such huge volume with their wings flapping and the air...
by Sbexon | Oct 30, 2024 | Community, History, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Nostalgia
One of the final hockey seasons is underway in the Saddledome and it’s making me think of all the great memories from that notorious building. I remember when it was first built and we all thought it looked like a maxi-pad. Be that as it may, it was built for the...
by Sbexon | Oct 23, 2024 | Author, Community, History, Lifestyle, Nostalgia
(Me with the toque on The Great Wall in 1984) As of today, I have been on this earth for 32,014.5 days. The half is because I was born midway through my first day. I know this because my dad dropped my mom off in the morning at The Calgary General Hospital, where he...
