April 2012 - Time Goes By - The Network of Care

How Aging Changed the Lobster Story (from 2006)

EDITORIAL NOTE: One of the best things that can happen to a blogger is taking place for me this week – meeting in person an internet friend. Yesterday, Time Goes By Elder Music columnist, Peter Tibbles, arrived to stay for... Read More...

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

ELDER MUSIC: Flute

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, Apr 29 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 28 April 2012

A SUNDAY AT 105 This 13-minute film follows Aldéa Pellerin-Cormier through one day from early morning until time for bed. Made by her great-grandson, Daniel Leger, Ms. Pellerin-Cormier's comments are in French with English subtitles. There is more...

Published Sat, Apr 28 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Mom's 20th Yarzeit

Today is the 20th anniversary of my mother's death, her “yahrzeit” in Yiddish. I am not religious. Not at all. In fact, I don't believe there is a god. But I like this ritual of lighting a 24-hour yahrzeit candle... Read More...

Published Fri, Apr 27 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

THE TGB ELDERLAW ATTORNEY: Estate Plans

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, Apr 26 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER POETRY INTERLUDE: Since Nine -

By C. P. Cavafy (Translated by Daniel Mendelsohn) Half past twelve. The time has quickly passed since nine o'clock when I first turned up the lamp and sat down here. I've been sitting without reading, without speaking. With whom should... Read...

Published Wed, Apr 25 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Elder Media: For Women Only? Dumb Ones?

As Crabby Old Lady has written here in the past, the largest impetus behiind this blog was the fact that after seven or eight years of diving deep into available research on aging and what it would be like for... Read More...

Published Tue, Apr 24 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Elder Income

There has been plenty of reporting on the increasing inequality of wealth distribution between the top one percent of the population and the 99 percent of the rest of us. The disparity is breathtaking. By most measurements, the top .01... Read More.....

Published Mon, Apr 23 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: Phone

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, Apr 22 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF: 21 April 2012

MUSIC MAN MURRAY Murray Gershenz runs the Music Man Murray's record shop in Los Angeles where he keeps what is probably the largest private collection of vinyl recordings in the world – tens of thousands of them. His quest to... Read More...

Published Sat, Apr 21 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Lies, Damned Lies and Social Security

Yeah, yeah, I know. Some of you develop instant glazed eye syndrome when I repeatedly harp on the need to preserve Social Security and to flay those who want to kill it. Here I go again. As I keep pointing... Read More...

Published Fri, Apr 20 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER POETRY INTERLUDE: Age Comes A-Wooing

By Joyce Kilmer With shameless and incessant lust Thy tremulous hot hands are thrust Upon my body's loveliness. O loathsome Age, thy foul caress Puts on my heart a deadly blight, Withers my hair to leprous white, Binds fetters on... Read More...

Published Thu, Apr 19 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Why Do So Many Elders Vote Conservative?

Back in January, I asked the question: Are you more conservative or more liberal than when you were younger? The responses were nearly 100 percent “more liberal” or “always liberal” but that is to be expected on this blog. Conservatives... Read More....

Published Wed, Apr 18 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

How Many Elders are Online?

Well, if you're reading this, you are definitely online. But many elders are not. The annual Pew survey of internet usage always grabs me and because this blog is Time Goes By what it's really like to get old, I... Read More...

Published Tue, Apr 17 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Hilary Rosen and Ann Romney

What Hilary Rosen said about Ann Romney last week has been ticking at my brain like one of Peter Tibbles' earworms. “Never worked a day in her life. Never worked a day in her life.” And again, “never worked a... Read More...

Published Mon, Apr 16 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

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