by Sbexon | Jul 30, 2026 | Retirement
My daughter said she was proud of me when I got home from a protest recently. Then she commented that we don’t tell adults enough that we’re proud of them. That we tell that to kids all the time, but we should also hear these things as adults. What a great idea! There...
by Sbexon | Jul 20, 2026 | Retirement
I wholeheartedly agreed when my daughter approached me with the idea of training her own service dog. She would benefit so much from having a service dog, I thought, and just committing to the responsibility for its training would be beneficial. I imagined the dog...
by Sbexon | Jul 5, 2026 | Community, History, Lifestyle, Nostalgia, Retirement, Wellness
The backyard wrestling came to a quick halt when my dog and I had to sit, stay, and watch the drone hoovering overhead. Right, I remembered, the Condo Board said they would be using a drone to determine the state of everyone’s roof shingles. Pretty nifty way of doing...
by Sbexon | Jun 23, 2026 | Career, Community, Lifestyle, Retirement, Tips, Wellness
There are substantial amounts of dossiers declaring the neuroscience behind the premise that many of us are getting retirement all wrong, and they are very convincing. We are addicted to being busy, we haven’t deprogrammed our ‘achiever brain’, we are caught in a...
by Sbexon | Jun 3, 2026 | Community, Finances, Golden Nuggets, Lifestyle, Retirement, Tips, Wellness
It was so great running into Joan. I had been watching for her for a few weeks, since I didn’t have the opportunity to stop and chat last time I caught a glimpse of her. Today, though, the slight and elderly lady stood in the sun with her usual smile. There was a lot...
by Sbexon | May 31, 2026 | Community, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Retirement, Wellness
When I was scrolling through the e-affirmations that arrive in my inbox each morning, I glanced down the usual reminders about living in the moment and grabbing an attitude of gratitude. I stopped at one prompt on the list I hadn’t ever seen before. It read ‘Protect...
