I’m grounded enough, thank you

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...

There is still great optimism in volunteering

by Sbexon | May 22, 2025 | Career, Community, History, Lifestyle, News, Nostalgia, Tips, Wellness

I had the privilege of attending the ‘International Year of Volunteers’ world conference in Amsterdam in January 2001. It was a monumental event – national committees from countries all over the world were there. Amazing guest speakers from the United Nations, Kings...

Challenge to self: don’t be stuck in my ways

by Sbexon | Apr 16, 2025 | Community, Food and Recipe, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Nostalgia, Retirement, Tips, Wellness

My friend from yoga showed me what my first ‘65th year challenge to myself’ should be. When I wrote the column about spending my 65th year putting forth a little monthly challenge to myself, I started wondering what the heck that would look like and what I would do....

Elbows up, standing shoulder to shoulder with linked arms

by Sbexon | Mar 19, 2025 | Community, Lifestyle, News, Retirement, Tips, Wellness

Gosh, that title sounds like a game of Twister, doesn’t it? But it doesn’t feel like a game these days. It got me thinking: What do you stand on guard for? Your word? Your livelihood? Your kids? I vividly remember the last time I took my daughter camping. She was...

Gracefully surrendering the coordination of youth

by Sbexon | Mar 13, 2025 | Community, Lifestyle, Nostalgia, Retirement, Tips, Wellness

On the days when I wake up and my eyelids won’t accordion-fold open into their prescribed slots properly, I know I’m in for a day of jamming square pegs into round holes. A day where anything that requires the technology and good fortune of an accurate twist or a fold...

We need a little good news

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...