November 2011 - Time Goes By - The Network of Care

Payroll Tax Cut Ambivalence

It tells you a lot about our corrupt politics that when Congress passed the payroll tax holiday in December 2010 in the same package as the extension of the Bush era tax cuts primarily benefiting the wealthy, the former was... Read More...

Published Wed, Nov 30 2011 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Another Reader, Another Age Dilemma

Exactly 55. That is the age at which I learned I am not immortal. I've told the story many times: I scanned the newsroom one day to locate a writer I needed to speak with and was stunned, gazing over... Read More...

Published Tue, Nov 29 2011 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Kisses in the Rain

No one would mistake them for young, but they were not old yet either. At least, not as old as I am at 70. They were about 50 – closer to 55, I think, than 45 - and a handsome... Read More...

Published Mon, Nov 28 2011 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: Some More Pianists I Like

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, Nov 27 2011 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF: 26 November 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...

Published Sat, Nov 26 2011 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Post-Thanksgiving Stuff

Not to stretch out this holiday for days and days – oh, right; I just did. Well, here's a holiday surprise. I woke at my usual hour yesterday, 5:30AM. Fed the cat, started the water for coffee, booted the computer... Read More...

Published Fri, Nov 25 2011 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Happy Thanksgiving Day 2011

The Elder Storytelling Place will return tomorrow. Happy Holiday. Read More...

Published Thu, Nov 24 2011 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Special 2011 Thanksgiving

With Congress into its second or third year of dysfunction, with mainstream media, elected officials and their police enforcers working overtime to discredit the 99 percent movement, there isn't much to be thankful for in our world at large –... Read...

Published Wed, Nov 23 2011 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

The Varieties of Thanksgivings

It really is the nicest of our holidays, isn't it. It is quiet as opposed to noisy (Independence Day). There are no gifts to obsess over (Christmas) unless bringing dessert counts. And you don't have to stand outside freezing your... Read More...

Published Tue, Nov 22 2011 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Help - Old Woman Lost in Cyberspace

Many years ago, in 1989 or 1990, a computer game named SimCity was released for IBM PC computers which at the time still ran on DOS – no Windows yet. By today's computer graphics standards, SimCity was primitive then, almost... Read More...

Published Mon, Nov 21 2011 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: 1968

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, Nov 20 2011 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 19 November 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...

Published Sat, Nov 19 2011 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Mort Reichek – Octogenarian

One of the hardest things about writing a blog for and about old people is that by definition readers, acquaintances and friends sometimes die. Ten days ago, on 8 November, my friend Mort Reichek died in Florida after a two-week... Read More...

Published Fri, Nov 18 2011 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Age, Weight and Leaky Pipes

It has been more than two years since we last spoke of urinary incontinence. As I explained then: ”[L]ately, when I laugh, sneeze or cough with too much force, I leak. Or, more bluntly, I pee in my pants. Not... Read More...

Published Thu, Nov 17 2011 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Chained CPI and the Super Committee

A person could lose her mind over the past three months paying too much attention to what is said in the media about the the super committee's work on deficit reduction – something I have, unfortunately, been doing so anything... Read More...

Published Wed, Nov 16 2011 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

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