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  • Two Standout Differences in Oregon

    Having been in my new town in Oregon for less than three weeks, I'm hardly qualified to make any judgments about the place. Aside from forays to local stores for necessities like food and kitty litter, I've hardly strayed beyond... Read More....

  • Retirement Adjustments

    There was a terrific, wide-ranging discussion here last week responding to a post titled Grateful to be Retired, but I never got around to saying why I am grateful to be retired and there is oh, so much that made... Read More...

  • GRAY MATTERS: Republicans and the Health Care Reform Law

    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...

  • The Saturday Farmer's Market

    Anyone who has been reading this blog for more than a few months knows that one of my favorite excursions in Portland, Maine was the Wednesday farmers' market in Monument Square. I liked getting there when it opened at 7AM... Read More...

  • The Reason Old People Must Die

    In followup to Crabby Old Lady's post yesterday: Remember when the only way there was to write letters to one another was snailmail? It had been that way for nearly six centuries until, about 20 years ago, email supplanted it.... Read More...

  • In Memoriam – Nancy Belle

    Yesterday, I learned that Nancy Belle died unexpectedly last Thursday, 17 June. Many of you may know her. She commented here from time to time and she blogged at The Tempered Optimist. Almost exactly a year ago, she wrote a... Read More...

  • GRAY MATTERS: Health Care Reform Benefits for Elders

    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...

  • Looking Old

    When Crabby Old Lady was younger – way younger – it was common among her crowd to remark, when they had partied too hard the night before, that they'd had a preview in the morning mirror of what they would... Read More...

  • Grateful to Be Retired

    Among the stray thoughts that roll around in my head, one repeats itself every time I see a news story about unemployment, underemployment and recession-related job advice: how grateful I am that I am no longer in the workforce. Retiring... Read More...

  • Making Peace with Suburbia

    For a few years when I was a kid, I lived in the 'burbs. Following World War II, my parents built a house right here in Lake Oswego; in the mid-1950s, I lived for a couple of years in Marin... Read More...

  • Grumpy is Good for You

    According to an Australian researcher who studies human emotions, grumpy people think more clearly and are better able to cope with demanding situations than cheerful people. “In contrast to those annoying happy types,” reported BBC.com, “miserable people...

  • Anti-Aging Baloney

    A lot of marketing and public relations people who do not bother to read or even skim this blog, send requests asking Crabby Old Lady to interview longevity experts or review books about life extension or report on anti-aging products.... Read More.....

  • New Home, New Treats

    This is what happens when I putter around not doing much of anything on the weekend: you get a photo story on Monday, something that doesn't require much thinking. But first... I would love to have found a home with... Read More...

  • Reverse Mortgage – Part 1

    Like so many elders, I lost a lot of money in the financial crash of 2008. There was not all that much to begin with, but enough to augment my Social Security benefit so that without undue effort, I could... Read More...

  • REFLECTIONS: On Captain Ike

    Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Saul Friedman (bio) writes the twice-monthly Reflections column for Time Goes By in which he comments on news, politics and social issues from his perspective as one of the younger members of the greatest generation....
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