by Sbexon | Dec 24, 2024 | Community, Food and Recipe, History, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Nostalgia, Retirement
Forty-four years ago today, I spent Christmas Eve in Bethlehem. It was a night to behold, for sure, during a memorable winter that I spent working on a kibbutz in Israel. It was what young backpackers did at the time – when it got cold in Europe where everyone was...
by Sbexon | Dec 18, 2024 | Community, History, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Nostalgia, Retirement, Wellness
There was a time when everyone was giving me scarves for Christmas. It was a strange phase, but they were all lovely and some were even handmade which made them even more special. I figured maybe I had reached that time in my life when I had become difficult to buy...
by Sbexon | Dec 12, 2024 | Community, Lifestyle, Nostalgia, Retirement
Do you keep all the Christmas cards you receive – when there’s not a postal strike and you’re actually receiving them? I keep mine! It’s so that I can bring them out again in the heat of a summer’s day and let a totally different feeling wash over me...
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 | Oct 10, 2024 | Hobbies, Lifestyle, Retirement, Wellness
I surprised a lot of people a few weeks ago when I mentioned I wanted to join a community choir – especially my friends who have heard me sing! Before they start planning on how best to console me when the rejections start coming in, I have since experienced another...
by Sbexon | Sep 11, 2024 | Community, Finances, Lifestyle, News, Retirement
The long arm of the law seems to have wrapped itself firmly around my shoulders this summer. You may recall me writing (okay, possibly complaining) a few columns ago about getting two speeding tickets in exactly the same spot two weeks apart. Well, I promptly paid the...
