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  • Playing Blog Hooky

    This was the gorgeous view out my dining room window at about 7AM yesterday, Sunday morning. The weatherman predicted bright skies all day and 70F degrees – the first time the temperature has been that high since sometime last fall.... Read More...

  • A Little Levity to Lighten the Load

    There are days when it's not worth getting out of bed. We all know this to be a truth but the problem is that it is impossible to know until you're already out of bed. Yesterday was one of those... Read More...

  • Health Care and the Department of Lost Causes

    No one of any political stripe can argue that health care is not a problem that must be addressed. The divide occurs when solutions for reform are discussed. The first big disappointment came in 2009 when, with the health care... Read More...

  • The People's Budget – A Sane Third Way

    As legislators returned to Washington from their two-week recess on Monday, the death of Osama bin Laden provided a rare moment of bipartisan collegiality. Even Republicans praised President Obama for a job well done. Now, there are a budget, a... Read...

  • INTERESTING STUFF – 21 May 2011

    Interesting Stuff is a weekly listing of short takes and links to web items that have caught my attention; some related to aging and some not, some useful and others just for fun. You are all encouraged to submit items... Read More...

  • ELDER MUSIC: 1955

    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...

  • Memory Lapse at the End of the World

    For nearly 50 years, five days each week, I rose from bed, showered, dressed and headed off to work. In the years since I retired, I have treated workdays no differently except I commute only 15 or 20 feet from... Read More...

  • Earliest Memories

    My brother and I lived together as children for only about nine years. I was five-and-a-half when he was born and moved to California when I was 15 and he was nine. In the year since I moved to Oregon... Read More...

  • The New Home One Year Later

    Tomorrow, Tuesday, will be the first anniversary of move-in day at this new home of mine in Lake Oswego, Oregon. You would be amazed at how much I have not done yet to settle in. Few pictures are hung. There... Read More...

  • Elder Unemployment

    Superficially, the latest unemployment numbers showed some good news for workers age 55 and older: 203,000 more of them were employed in April than in March and the unemployment rate for the group remained steady at 6.5 percent. The improvement... Read...

  • Elder-Friendly Stores

    Thank you all for your lovely comments on yesterday's post about Time Goes By's poor reputation rating. It surely was not meant as a fishing expedition and I was surprised. You make me feel all warm and fuzzy. You're all... Read More...

  • Frittering Time Away

    For the 47 years I worked, free time was precious. I devoted Saturday mornings to chores and errands that had to be done: cleaning the house, laundry, any needed repairs, shopping for food and other necessities, banking, etc. The goal... Read More...

  • Memorial Day 2011

    Memorial Day was created to honor both Union and Confederate soldiers who died in the U.S. Civil War. It was later extended to include World War I and now, in memory of the men and women who have died during... Read More...

  • Political Schadenfreude

    New York's 26th Congressional District has been in the hands of Republicans for 40 years so when a special election was held to fill the seat of the member who resigned after posting a half-naked photograph of himself on Craigslist,... Read More....

  • Impact of Recession on Elders

    This week, the AARP Public Policy Institute released a preliminary study of a survey they conducted in October 2010 with 5,027 men and woman 50 and older. ITEM: 24.7 percent of exhausted their savings ITEM: 19.4 percent fell behind in... Read More...
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