by Sbexon | Feb 13, 2025 | Author, Career, Community, History, Lifestyle, News, Wellness, Writing
I have spent several years of my life feeling slightly ashamed that I haven’t read Alice Munro. Notable Nobel Prize winning Canadian author – I wondered through the years what the disconnect was. I felt slightly intimidated at times and then quite disinterested at...
by Sbexon | Jan 30, 2025 | Community, Finances, History, Lifestyle, Nostalgia, Parenting, Wellness
I recently heard the former purchaser for Harrods in London describing her epiphany that led to restraining herself to buying only five items this year. I realize that her life of stocking the shelves of one of the world’s exclusive shops is very different from mine –...
by Sbexon | Jan 15, 2025 | Community, Lifestyle, Wellness
I’ve been hearing a lot of people talking about hearing tests lately. At least I think that’s what they’ve been saying. I can’t confirm since I’m finding myself struggling to hear people now and I haven’t had a test myself for about seven years. How often are we...
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 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 | Nov 28, 2024 | Community, History, Lifestyle, News, Nostalgia, Wellness
November 5 will go down in history as a very sad day. It’s the day we learned of the passing of Chief Justice Murray Sinclair, this country’s exquisite example of the best in humanity. So many accomplishments in his lifetime, but for me it was his role as Chair of...
