December 2010 - Time Goes By - The Network of Care

<div style=color:#d10000>HAPPY NEW YEAR 2011 EVERYONE</div>

And so a new year rolls round again – sooner, always, than we expect. To celebrate this time, a slide show sent by Darlene Costner of Darlene's Hodgepodge. No politics, no war, no strife, no exhortations to do anything. Just... Read More...

Published Fri, Dec 31 2010 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Holiday Traditions

Every family has holiday traditions. We learn them from our parents – as they probably did from their parents - pass them on to our children with annual repetition, perhaps inventing some new ones along the way, or drop some... Read More...

Published Thu, Dec 30 2010 5:31 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF: 29 December 2010

Interesting Stuff is an occasional column of short takes and links to web items that have recently caught my attention – some related to aging and some not. All readers are encouraged to submit items for inclusion. Just click Contact... Read More...

Published Wed, Dec 29 2010 5:31 AM by TIME GOES BY

The Days of Christmas

There were not many in my family to begin with: a mom, a dad, two children, a great aunt, a grandfather I knew and a grandmother I did not know who lived halfway across the country from our home in... Read More...

Published Tue, Dec 28 2010 5:31 AM by TIME GOES BY

My Friend, My Teacher - Saul Friedman

Of course, I had known this day would come. Saul had told me about his stroke, his later treatment for esophageal cancer and more recently, a stomach cancer. Some months ago, he said, he had gone into hospice care and... Read More...

Published Mon, Dec 27 2010 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Saul Friedman 1929 - 2010

Yesterday, on 24 December, Saul Friedman died at home on Chesapeake Bay surrounded by his family. His 23-year-old grandson, Benjamin T. Hall, wrote this remembrance to share with Saul's many readers. As I sit here with a hint of scotch... Read More...

Published Sat, Dec 25 2010 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Merry Christmas 2010

All three of us are away for the weekend but never fear, new stories will appear here as usual on Saturday from Saul Friedman and on Sunday from Peter Tibbles. The Elder Storytelling Place is on a holiday hiatus until... Read More...

Published Fri, Dec 24 2010 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Old Fogey Email Users

Yesterday, The New York Times - being the paper of record and all – relegated Crabby Old Lady to the “old fogey” category. Signs of that status, they say, are “You still watch movies on a VCR, listen to vinyl... Read More...

Published Thu, Dec 23 2010 5:31 AM by TIME GOES BY

GAY AND GRAY: DADT Repealed

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...

Published Wed, Dec 22 2010 5:31 AM by TIME GOES BY

Social Security and Elder Women

By mid-afternoon yesterday, I had written most of what I had planned for today's post, but as the hours ticked past, increasing numbers of news and commentary popped into my inbox about the coming attack on Social Security, adding to... Read More...

Published Tue, Dec 21 2010 5:31 AM by TIME GOES BY

An Historic Repeal, DREAMs die and "Worst Responders"

If it seems to you that legislative votes in Congress are coming hot and heavy in these last weeks of 2010, you're correct. But don't for a moment feel sorry for Congress members about how much work they're doing at... Read More...

Published Mon, Dec 20 2010 5:31 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: Christmas in Oz (continued from last year)

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...

Published Sun, Dec 19 2010 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

GRAY MATTERS: Small Miracles

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...

Published Sat, Dec 18 2010 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Elders' Technology

Many young people believe elders are technology challenged and indeed, a larger percentage of old people do not use computers and the internet than young folks. One reason is that many elders retired before computers were ubiquitous in the workplace....

Published Fri, Dec 17 2010 5:31 AM by TIME GOES BY

Name Stories

Being thoroughly fed up this week with Congress and the president who are playing most bountiful Santa Claus to the already filthy rich while stuffing Social Security's stocking with lumps of coal, I looked for a distraction – something light... Read...

Published Thu, Dec 16 2010 5:31 AM by TIME GOES BY

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