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  • GRAY MATTERS: The Simpson/Bowles Deficit Commission

    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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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,...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Elder Inflation

    Unless it happened overnight while I was sleeping, there has been no movement in Washington on the payroll tax holiday. The president was seen on television saying again that his tax cut deal is good for America, but that is... Read More...

  • Bernie's Excellent Adventure

    Independent Senator Bernie Sanders had already been talking nonstop for five hours Friday when Kay Dennison of Kay's Thinking Cap alerted me to turn on CSPAN2. Until the senator yielded the floor another three-and-a-half hours later, I was transfixed...

  • 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....

  • 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...
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