March 2012 - Time Goes By - The Network of Care

Slow Internet Day

It is late Monday morning as I write this and for hours now, I would have been better off with a Dixie cup and a string than the internet. Still would be. It has been taking up to ten minutes... Read More...

Published Tue, Mar 13 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 17 March 2012

HILLARY ON WOMEN'S RIGHTS Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave a fine speech on women's rights worldwide last week at end of the Women in the World conference in New York and you can see the entire 30 minutes here... Read More...

Published Sat, Mar 17 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

THE TGB ELDERLAW ATTORNEY: Advance Directives

Orrin Onken writes the twice-monthly TGB Elderlaw Attorney column in which he discusses legal issues of concern and interest to elders. He is an elderlaw attorney licensed to practice in the state of Oregon. He also keeps his own blog,... Read More.....

Published Thu, Mar 22 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Elders, the Supreme Court and the Republican Budget

Beginning today through Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court is hearing six hours of oral arguments in regard to several aspects of the Affordable Care Act. (That's “Obamacare,” the once derisive name Republicans gave the Act which the Obama administration...

Published Mon, Mar 26 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Death and Taxes

Well, not taxes specifically but money, for sure, which affects taxes and I ran out of better ideas. One evening last week, I attended an event of a local non-profit, Elders in Action. Since 1968, they have worked in a... Read More...

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

ELDER MUSIC: Bob

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, Mar 04 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER POETRY INTERLUDE: Lines on Retirement, after Reading <em>Lear</em>

By David Wright Avoid storms. And retirement parties. You can’t trust the sweetnesses your friends will offer, when they really want your office, which they’ll redecorate. Beware the still untested pension plan. Keep your keys. Ask for more troops than...

Published Thu, Mar 08 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Elders and Voter Suppression

Are you registered to vote? Are you sure? Using a pretext of widespread voter fraud, Republicans in the 50 states have been on tear creating an array of new, restrictive voter ID legislation that makes it difficult, expensive and, in... Read More...

Published Mon, Mar 12 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER POETRY INTERLUDE: A Crabby Old Woman

Today's poem is a repeat, initially published here during Time Goes By's first six months of existence in 2004. Here is what I wrote about it that year: ”This poem is floating around the Web here and there. According to... Read More...

Published Fri, Mar 16 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

The Constant, Wearying Assault on Elders

On Sunday, while I was reading and gathering information for yesterday's post about the AARP secret meeting on Social Security, I could feel how tired I am of it all. “All” being the necessity to maintain a constant watch on... Read More...

Published Tue, Mar 20 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER POETRY INTERLUDE: Mother to Son

By Langston Hughes Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. It's had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards torn up, And places with no carpet on the floor— Bare. But all the time... Read More...

Published Wed, Mar 21 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: Cecilia Bartoli

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, Mar 25 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER POETRY INTERLUDE: In View of the Fact

By A. R. Ammons The people of my time are passing away: my wife is baking for a funeral, a 60-year-old who died suddenly, when the phone rings, and it's Ruth we care so much about in intensive care: it... Read More...

Published Thu, Mar 29 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 3 March 2012

WOMEN'S HEALTH EXPERTS SPEAK OUT After the squeaker of a vote in the Senate this week that did manage to defeat the horrific Blunt Amendment, we definitely need to blow off some steam and this video should do it for... Read More...

Published Sat, Mar 03 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

How to Survive a Hospital Stay

Way back in 1977, on the day I was to begin an exciting new job, I instead wound up in a hospital with, among other symptoms, a high fever and unbearable abdominal pain. Soon after my arrival, I lay on... Read More...

Published Wed, Mar 07 2012 5:42 AM by TIME GOES BY

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