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 | Jan 23, 2025 | Community, History, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Nostalgia, Retirement
With the new year comes a milestone event – this will be my 45th year of graduating from high school. What a thought, what a long time ago, how old we all are now. All of us people who graduated in 1979 from a huge Catholic high school in Calgary. I graduated with...
by Sbexon | Dec 27, 2024 | Community, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Nostalgia, Retirement, Wellness
What fun to receive an invitation to join a senior’s choir, after a kind person named Jim read my November column ‘Just open up and sing’. I would be welcome to just pop into a group of singers who gather every Tuesday morning, he said. What have I got to lose, I...
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...
