by Sbexon | Jun 11, 2025 | Community, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Retirement, Tips, Wellness
A walk with Sheldon. If you’re out and about in Red Deer, you’ve seen Sheldon. He’s everywhere and he’s always walking. Slow and steady, through the pathways and streets of Red Deer in every season – usually wearing a hockey jersey or t-shirt. He’s a giant of a man, a...
by Sbexon | Jun 4, 2025 | Community, Golden Nuggets, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Nostalgia, Retirement, Wellness
Didn’t we all do ridiculous things back in the day when we were free roaming kids in the 60s and 70s? Novels could be written about the shenanigans, but when I narrow it down to things that were downright dangerous the list gets shorter. Thankfully. When we were...
by Sbexon | May 29, 2025 | Hobbies, Lifestyle, Retirement, Tips, Wellness
After watching a documentary on Grounding, I thought it might be just the ticket for my old pug. The concept is that by planting your bare feet on the ground you can start to heal yourself from all of the earth’s manmade electrical energy and reduce inflammation. We...
by Sbexon | May 17, 2025 | Career, Community, History, Lifestyle, Nostalgia, Retirement, Writing
My second ‘65th year challenge to myself’ dawned on me slowly. Mostly because I was rushing around finishing projects before I met my friend for dinner prior to heading over to an antique typewriter display together – before all of which I had stopped for coffee with...
by Sbexon | May 9, 2025 | History, Lifestyle, Nostalgia, Retirement, Wellness
I’m not exactly sure that what I purchase now is still considered lingerie. There was a long stretch of time in my life when acquiring comfortable undergarments was the last thing on my mind! I used to succumb to marketing and wore itchy uncomfortable lacy items for...
by Sbexon | May 1, 2025 | Community, History, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Nostalgia, Retirement
I was excited to pick up a copy of the recent Life magazine that was celebrating the 60th anniversary of The Sound of Music. Seeing that movie for the first time sixty years ago had broadened my tiny world ever so slightly. It was 1965, I was four years old, and my...
