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 | Mar 13, 2025 | Community, Lifestyle, Nostalgia, Retirement, Tips, Wellness
On the days when I wake up and my eyelids won’t accordion-fold open into their prescribed slots properly, I know I’m in for a day of jamming square pegs into round holes. A day where anything that requires the technology and good fortune of an accurate twist or a fold...
by Sbexon | Mar 5, 2025 | Community, Lifestyle, Nostalgia, Retirement, Wellness
(Here’s me with my youngest nephew on a previous set in Olds – the artist of the mural took the picture!) My nephews are so adorable. All four of them are clever and kind, and either in their 40s or inching much closer to that magic age. It was only a few...
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 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...
