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....

Will you still feed me when I’m sixty-four

by Sbexon | Mar 26, 2025 | Community, Food and Recipe, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Nostalgia, Retirement, Wellness

How we used to laugh at those old Beatles lyrics way back when, feeling that the age of 64 was lightyears away. But I’m here now. Just turned 64 a few weeks ago and must say it has already caused a bit of confusion. It started when my dear school friend sent me a New...

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...

Life is a matter of perspective

by Sbexon | Mar 5, 2025 | Community, Lifestyle, Nostalgia, Retirement, Wellness

(Here’s me with my youngest nephew on a previous set in Olds – the artist of the mural took the picture!) My nephews are so adorable. All four of them are clever and kind, and either in their 40s or inching much closer to that magic age. It was only a few...

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...