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  • INTERESTING STUFF – 23 November 2013

    FORCED TO MOVE HIS WIFE'S GRAVE Remember back in October when I told you about Jim Davis's court battle to keep the grave of his wife, Patsy, in their front yard? Now he has lost that fight. ”With husband James... Read More...
    Posted to Time Goes By by TIME GOES BY on 11-23-2013

  • ELDER MUSIC: Lead Guitarists – Commenters' Choice

    This Sunday Elder Music column was launched in December of 2008. By May of the following year, one commenter, Peter Tibbles, had added so much knowledge and value to my poor attempts at musical presentations that I asked him to... Read More...
    Posted to Time Goes By by TIME GOES BY on 11-24-2013

  • Elder Quality of Life

    Referring to a most amazingly fleet-of-foot dancer in a video on Saturday's Interesting Stuff post, Darlene Costner commented, ”I would be grateful if I could still walk without staggering like an old drunk.” I certainly understand that and when I...
    Posted to Time Goes By by TIME GOES BY on 11-25-2013

  • Crabby Old Lady and Thanksgiving Shopping

    (Before Crabby Old Lady gets into this rant, she needs to tell you that she abhors crowds and has never in her life gone shopping on black Friday or any other crunch shopping day. There is no sale on earth... Read More...
    Posted to Time Goes By by TIME GOES BY on 11-26-2013

  • Hannukah 5774

    It is just weird that the first day of Hannukah this year comes on American Thanksgiving day – or vice versa depending on your point of view. The first candle is lit tonight and it is fortunate for tomorrow's meal... Read More...
    Posted to Time Goes By by TIME GOES BY on 11-27-2013

  • Thanksgiving Day 2013

    I was a week late last year in discovering that 2012 was the 45th anniversary of Arlo Guthrie's epic Thanksgiving fable, Alice's Restaurant. I also discovered, all these years later, that with a couple of minor lapses, I still know... Read More...
    Posted to Time Goes By by TIME GOES BY on 11-28-2013

  • The Day After Thanksgiving 2013

    Is everyone appropriately stuffed from their feast yesterday? I've always thought Thanksgiving leftovers were more fun the meal itself. As we discussed a couple of days ago, neither I nor any of the 30-plus people who commented are the sort... Read...
    Posted to Time Goes By by TIME GOES BY on 11-29-2013

  • INTERESTING STUFF – 30 November 2013

    ALL EARTH'S HISTORY IN TWO MINUTES Cutaway Productions is a student-run video production company working out of Stillwater Area High School in Minnesota. A student who uses the screen name drivinman687 wrote this on the YouTube page about his video...
    Posted to Time Goes By by TIME GOES BY on 11-30-2013

  • ELDER MUSIC: 1940

    This Sunday Elder Music column was launched in December of 2008. By May of the following year, one commenter, Peter Tibbles, had added so much knowledge and value to my poor attempts at musical presentations that I asked him to... Read More...
    Posted to Time Goes By by TIME GOES BY on 12-01-2013

  • Physician-Assisted Suicide

    My friend Wendl Kornfeld sent me a link to an impassioned rant from Dilbert creator, Scott Adams, about his 86-year-old father's final months. This excerpt gives you the gist of it: ”If my dad were a cat, we would have... Read More...
    Posted to Time Goes By by TIME GOES BY on 12-02-2013

  • Holiday Gifts for Elders 2013

    Supposedly it's hard to find gifts for people like us – old folks - but judging by the length of my past annual posts on this subject along with reader suggestions in comments, it shouldn't be difficult. Ideas runneth over.... Read More...
    Posted to Time Goes By by TIME GOES BY on 12-03-2013

  • Journal Entry: Plugged Back in to the Medical World

    At my annual vision checkup a couple of weeks ago, Dr. O said my cataracts have advanced far enough for removal and an appointment was made with a surgical specialist. That's where I spent the greater part of Tuesday –... Read More...
    Posted to Time Goes By by TIME GOES BY on 12-04-2013

  • The Government War on Old People

    I dislike slogans that declare war. You know, the war on drugs, the war on poverty. We have all seen how well those have gone and it deprives a word like “war” of its power when we apply it to... Read More...
    Posted to Time Goes By by TIME GOES BY on 12-05-2013

  • Journal Entry: The Next Step in My Old Age

    All we know for sure is that life is short. Or, more likely, it's only old people who know that. When I was young, in my 20s and contemplating my future, to be 70 someday felt like an eternity, even... Read More...
    Posted to Time Goes By by TIME GOES BY on 12-06-2013

  • INTERESTING STUFF – 7 December 2013

    FOUR STAR CHEF SWITCHES TO A SOUP KITCHEN According to this story from KARE-TV, this man gave up a six-figure income as executive chef at one of the finest restaurants in Minneapolis/St. Paul for a Salvation Army soup kitchen. And... Read More...
    Posted to Time Goes By by TIME GOES BY on 12-07-2013
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