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  • Ice Cream, Guilt and Aging Well

    Among my favorite foods are lobster; Dungeness crab; big, fat, ripe blackberries; a blue cheese from Spain called Cabrales; maple-infused, grilled salmon; and gorilla salad, my own dinner invention involving 10 to 15 vegetables and fruits held together...

  • Unwritten TGB Blog Rules Revealed

    Some housekeeping today. Time Goes By is, by deliberate choice, an ad-free blog. Years ago, Crabby Old Lady did accept advertising, but TGB gets nowhere near the traffic that would allow ad rates such as Huffington Post, TPM and other... Read More...

  • Grandparent Names

    [UPDATE on Yesterday's Comcast Problem: After speaking with seven people over several hours (including one who said she could not help me but someone who could would call in three to five business days!), I received a phone message Monday... Read...

  • ELDER MUSIC: Chattanooga Choo Choo

    You never know who you're going to meet on the internet and I came to know Peter Tibbles (bio here) via email over the past couple of years. His extensive knowledge of most genres of music and his excellent taste... Read More...

  • ELDER MUSIC: The Music of Kurt Weill

    You never know who you're going to meet on the internet and I came to know Peter Tibbles (bio here) via email over the past couple of years. His extensive knowledge of most genres of music and his excellent taste... Read More...

  • GAY AND GRAY: Pat's Story

    Gay and Gray is a monthly column at Time Goes By written by Jan Adams (bio) in which she thinks out loud for us on issues of aging lesbians and gay men. Jan also writes on many topics at her... Read More...

  • Tiptoeing into a New Life

    No matter how well you plan, how much you organize and how many lists you make, something always goes wrong. I had expected that my stuff would be here in Lake Oswego by today, but it won't arrive until Monday.... Read More...

  • Moving In – Day One

    The moving company said the van would arrive on Monday morning, sometime between 10AM and 11AM. I left Ollie the cat at my brother's home and drove here early. Good thing. The van and three men showed up at 9:15AM.... Read More...

  • Recession Living

    Two years ago, when our great recession was getting underway, there was an excellent discussion here about Surviving Hard Times. Many elderbloggers and readers left their tips and tricks and memories from the Depression about cutting expenses for all...

  • GRAY MATTERS: Hunger and Shame

    Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Saul Friedman (bio) writes the weekly Gray Matters column which appears here each Saturday. Links to past Gray Matters columns can be found here. Saul's Reflections column, in which he comments on news, politics and...

  • Moving Day Stage 1

    This move to Oregon takes place in two stages. Ollie the cat and I fly to the west coast next Tuesday, 18 May (stage two). Today (stage one), the moving van will be loaded, including the car, so that furniture... Read More...

  • You Asked for Photos of the New Digs

    [EDITORIAL NOTE: Freda, who lives in Scotland, has sent in her photo for the Where Elders Blog feature. You can see it here. Instructions for including a photo of your blogspace are here.] Cats! You just get the bed made... Read More...

  • An Empty Apartment

    It's late afternoon on Wednesday as I write this in an airport hotel, and I'm exhausted. Everything I own in the world is on a truck presumably on its way to Oregon. My feet are killing me - this is... Read More...

  • Out of Time and Place

    It is almost done, this cross-country move from Portland to Portland. At about noon today, two real estate agents, a title company official, the buyers and I will meet to sign a lot of legal documents that will transfer ownership... Read More...

  • GRAY MATTERS: Hospice

    Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Saul Friedman (bio) writes the weekly Gray Matters column which appears here each Saturday. Links to past Gray Matters columns can be found here. Saul's Reflections column, in which he comments on news, politics and...
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