December 2010 - Time Goes By - The Network of Care

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

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

Obama's Stealth Attack on Social Security

Yesterday, Crabby Old Lady told you why President Obama's agreement with Congressional Republicans to extend unemployment benefits while retaining the Bush-era tax cuts is a bad idea. She intended to let me move on to some lighter material today,...

Published Wed, Dec 08 2010 5:31 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: Michael Martin Murphey

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 12 2010 5:30 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

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

Happy Hannukah 5771

Hanukkah began last evening. It's not that I do much about being Jewish but if nothing else, I enjoy the candles for eight nights. And I like the story. At The Elder Storytelling Place today: Lyn Burnstine: Golden Days Read More...

Published Thu, Dec 02 2010 5:31 AM by TIME GOES BY

Gifts For Elders

I am frequently asked to name good gifts for elders at Christmas and other times of the year. Since most of us at this blog are old folks ourselves, you would think there are ready answers, but the questions still... Read More...

Published Mon, Dec 06 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

<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

GRAY MATTERS: Potential Medicare Dangers

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 11 2010 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

The Social Security Sellout and an Interview

Back in 2005, President George W. Bush tried to sell Americans on the privatization of Social Security with a lie – that it was broke. Fortunately, most of the country knew better and the ploy failed. Nevertheless, it left many,... Read More...

Published Wed, Dec 15 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

REFLECTIONS: On Elitism

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....

Published Wed, Dec 01 2010 5:31 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: Frank Sinatra

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 05 2010 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

December 2010 - Time Goes By

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Old Fogey Email Users

The Days of Christmas

Obama's Stealth Attack on Social Security

ELDER MUSIC: Michael Martin Murphey

Name Stories

An Historic Repeal, DREAMs die and "Worst Responders"

Happy Hannukah 5771

Gifts For Elders

My Friend, My Teacher - Saul Friedman

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

GRAY MATTERS: Potential Medicare Dangers

The Social Security Sellout and an Interview

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

REFLECTIONS: On Elitism

ELDER MUSIC: Frank Sinatra