February 2012 - Time Goes By - The Network of Care

Elder Effort for Medical Marijuana

The guy in the video looked to be near my age and he was talking to a group of other people as old or older than I am. ”We invented marijuana,” he said. “We're the Woodstock generation.” Well, that got... Read More...

Published Tue, Feb 14 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Carrying High School Prejudices into Old Age

Undoubtedly, you remember cliques in high school where students divided themselves into the jocks, brains, rich, preppies, druggies, etc. and the most privileged groups tended to be mean. If you were among the excluded, it could be painful. It is... Read...

Published Mon, Feb 13 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: Elvis – Part 1

This Sunday Elder Music column was launched in December of 2008. By May of the following year, one commenter, Peter Tibbles, had added so much knowledge and value to my poor attempts at musical presentations that I asked him to... Read More...

Published Sun, Feb 12 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF: 11 February 2012

SONG FOR ANDREE GEULEN My neighbor Bill Pederson, who spends winters in Arizona, sends along this video made in celebration of a remarkable woman's 90th birthday. During World War II, Andree Geulen joined an underground group in Belgium to rescue...

Published Sat, Feb 11 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Beer Delivery from the Post Office

That's just one of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders' ideas to “save” the post office from draconian cuts that would, probably, destroy it. Well, it would not need saving except that six years ago during the Bush administration, Republicans in Congress...

Published Fri, Feb 10 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Crabby Old Lady on Awareness Junk

You could say that Crabby Old Lady is on a tear this week, what might be called a *** roll. First Komen, then White House communication and today, awareness junk – the ribbons, car magnets, wristbands and other trinkets that... Read More...

Published Thu, Feb 09 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Youth, Day, Old Age and Night

Lately, I've been reading some poems about old age. A large number are painful, angry or sad. And then there is this one: Youth, large, lusty, loving-youth full of grace, force, fascination, Do you know that Old Age may come... Read More...

Published Wed, Feb 08 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Crabby Old Lady and the White House

Here we go again. Remember when Crabby Old Lady told you about a letter emailed from her house to the White House? And then, a few days later, the pro forma reply that bore not a single reference to the... Read More...

Published Tue, Feb 07 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Crabby Old Lady on Komen/Planned Parenthood

The first thing Crabby Old Lady did last week when she read about Susan G. Komen For the Cure withdrawing their grants to Planned Parenthood for *** cancer screenings was send a donation to Planned Parenthood. Apparently, she was not... Read More...

Published Mon, Feb 06 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: Vivaldi

This Sunday Elder Music column was launched in December of 2008. By May of the following year, one commenter, Peter Tibbles, had added so much knowledge and value to my poor attempts at musical presentations that I asked him to... Read More...

Published Sun, Feb 05 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 4 February 2012

THE FANTASTIC FLYING BOOKS OF... Mr. Morris Lessmore. On last week's discussion of e-readers versus “real” books, Marian (sorry, the link you left to your blog doesn't work) left a reference to a little animated movie titled as above. It's...

Published Sat, Feb 04 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

What It's Like to Get Old – on This Day, Anyway

Well, I mean yesterday, Thursday. It's been happening about every two months for the past five years or so, as it did yesterday. I awakened at my usual early hour and followed my normal routine. Fed the cat, made the... Read More...

Published Fri, Feb 03 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Elder Occupy

On yesterday's post about a (non)answer from the White House in response to my letter about Social Security, Jan Adams, Letha, Frank Paynter and Linda all noted that this is an example of what the Occupy movement is about and... Read More...

Published Thu, Feb 02 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

The White House Responds and...

...there is nothing to know. Did we really expect anything else? Remember last Friday when I posted a letter here that I had emailed the White House asking President Barack Obama not to sell out elders in regard to Social... Read More...

Published Wed, Feb 01 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

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