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  • Your Money Saving Tips

    Even though prices for food (particularly produce), energy, clothing and other products have gone up, Social Security recipients are into their second year without a cost-of-living increase in their monthly benefit. Further, premiums for Supplemental...

  • The New Telephone Culture

    One of the most dramatic cultural changes in the lifetimes of those who read this blog is the fading of the telephone from our lives – at least for its original intended use. I had been thinking about how little... Read More...

  • ELDER MUSIC: 1951

    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...

  • Our Broken Country

    Even while my critical faculties were in retreat for the past week, between naps I've read the news and opinion online, listened the officials and pundits on television, and now that I'm feeling less sick and just tired, it struck... Read More...

  • ELDER MUSIC: On Charlie Christian's Shoulders

    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...

  • Shelter

    A few weeks ago, I received a note from Brenda Henry, then vacationing in Rio de Janeiro. It was filled with delightful tidbits about how elders are treated in Rio so I asked if, when she returned home to Montreal,... Read More...

  • The War on Elders (and Everybody Else) – Part 1 of ?

    It's been an exhausting few weeks: the earthquake in Japan, a new U.S. military venture in Libya, the ongoing demonstrations and fighting in almost every middle eastern country, the ominous silence from Israel, the crucial protests in Wisconsin, Michigan...

  • Old Age Cold (and More)

    Email back-and-forth with friend last Friday while conducting some boring, but necessary personal business: FRIEND: How are you feeling? ME: Awful. Many years ago, a cold remedy company used the slogan, “A summer cold is a different animal.” Hah! NOT...

  • The Last Magnificent Movie Queen

    The worst part of being sick with a cold is that my brain stops working. And although my body keeps saying, sleep, sleep – sometimes you just gotta get out of bed for awhile. Certainly you know by now that... Read More...

  • The Slipperiness of Age and Time

    This isn't a real blog post today – I'm just kind of ruminating on something that's been on my mind, but isn't wildly clear to me yet. Time's passage is a slippery thing that, I think, gets more interesting as... Read More...

  • GAY AND GRAY: Meet David

    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...

  • Social Security Part I: Stealth Cuts

    On Friday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Republican House Speaker John Boehner had this to say about Social Security in an interview with that newspaper: ” e's determined to offer a budget this spring that curbs Social Security and Medicare...

  • Down with a Cold

    I'm sure I've mentioned this before but just because I feel sick and whiny: when I was kid and had a cold, my mother handed me a couple of extra handkerchiefs and sent me to school. Aside from the annoyance... Read More...

  • 2012 Social Security Benefit

    In the past few days, an AP story has been circulating among newspapers reporting that in 2012 there will be a small cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) to Social Security benefits. But the kicker is that an increase in the Medicare Part... Read More...

  • TGB Product Promotion Policies

    SOCIAL SECURITY ALERT: If you are reading this in the morning, at noon today in cities throughout the country, there are rallies in front of local Social Security offices. The reason is that the 2011 budget continuing resolution, passed in... Read More...
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