by Sbexon | Mar 6, 2024 | Community, Food and Recipe, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Nostalgia, Retirement, Wellness
I know I’ve been going on and on about cooking lately – or lack thereof. ‘Learn to cook’ was front and centre on many lists and charts I was instructed to make when I contemplated what I would do with my time in retirement. It has stayed there through a couple of...
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 | Dec 27, 2023 | Community, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Retirement, Wellness
(Here we are, young backpackers atop one of the amazing pinnacles in Kalabaka, Greece. I’m the one on the right – the big hair makes me easy to spot!) My mom used to admonish me for ‘wishing my life away’, even when I was just a young girl. I was often...
by Sbexon | Dec 20, 2023 | Food and Recipe, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Retirement, Wellness
Here we are, smack-dab amid all the festivities. My wish is that your days are filled with kind visits and good cheer enroute to a happy holiday feast! My second wish is that my own festive gathering will be free of the mini calamities that seemed to haunt our...
by Sbexon | Dec 14, 2023 | Lifestyle, Nostalgia, Retirement, Writing
I bet you’re right in the middle of writing Christmas cards. I am, although I’ve cut my list down to just a dozen or so in an effort to keep things simple. I’ve always found this tradition to be a top seasonal stressor – as I wrote about in this article that was first...
