by Sbexon | Aug 31, 2025 | Author, Community, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Retirement, Tips, Wellness, Writing
Have you ever looked down at your dashboard to find that your air conditioner and your heater are both going full blast? I got that feeling of competing priorities when I attended When Words College conference for writers and readers in Calgary last month. Adamant...
by Sbexon | May 17, 2025 | Career, Community, History, Lifestyle, Nostalgia, Retirement, Writing
My second ‘65th year challenge to myself’ dawned on me slowly. Mostly because I was rushing around finishing projects before I met my friend for dinner prior to heading over to an antique typewriter display together – before all of which I had stopped for coffee with...
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 | May 22, 2024 | Author, Career, Community, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Writing
Image by BillionPhotos on Freepik I used to think it was only writers who were extra aware of the different markets that welcomed us in, but I’m coming to know that readers also share that priority. Readers have supported independently-published books for a long time...
by Sbexon | Apr 24, 2024 | Author, Career, Lifestyle, Nostalgia, Writing
Do you have apophenia? This is when numbers and patterns of numbers are considered to be meaningful when they’re not. I think I might have it, which makes me think I should stop consulting Dr. Google. But it also makes me wonder why someone else should have the right...
by Sbexon | Mar 12, 2024 | Author, Career, Community, History, Lifestyle, News, Nostalgia, Writing
Have you ever received a message completely out of the blue from a person you strain with all your might to recall, but for whom you apparently wielded a gigantic influence? I’ve had old friends look me up and some thank you notes from work colleagues over the years....
