September 2012 - Time Goes By - The Network of Care

ELDER POETRY INTERLUDE: Haiku

Certainly you know haiku, the elegant Japanese form of short poetry, tiny gems usually about nature but not always. From Jokun: Ah! I intended Never never to grow old Listen: New Year's Bell! Translated into English, classic Japanese haiku consists...

Published Thu, Sep 27 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF: 29 September 2012

ATTENTION SUBSCRIBERS: TGB readers who subscribe via email or rss, please note that you cannot watch videos in the feed that arrives in your inbox. This is how email is. I cannot change it. Please stop asking. To view the... Read More...

Published Sat, Sep 29 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Holiday Art Tour – Year Two

Unbeknownst to me when I moved to Lake Oswego two years, the town has a large and rich commitment to public art – in particular, sculpture in the Gallery Without Walls program. And by god, it shows on nearly every... Read More...

Published Mon, Sep 03 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Age Quotitis

Everyone likes quotations, right? The ones we like best are usually those that confirm our prejudices. A whole lot of others allow us to believe we have learned something important or useful or wise or clever but are so banal... Read More...

Published Mon, Sep 17 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

National Falls Prevention Day

Here's a nice little pun for you: tomorrow, 22 September which is the first day of fall, has been declared by U.S. Senate Resolution 553 to be National Falls Prevention Awareness Day. That's not really news. The Senate votes the... Read More....

Published Fri, Sep 21 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Elders and Hunger in America

A Gallup survey released last month found that one-quarter of Mississippians at least once in the preceding 12 months did not have enough money to buy the food they needed. ”In 15 states, at least one in five Americans say... Read More...

Published Thu, Sep 06 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Democratic Convention: Social Security and Medicare

Did you watch the Democratic Convention last week? I did. There were some damned good speakers leading up to the main event but most viewers didn't get to see them, even on MSNBC and CNN which favored uninformed pundit chatter... Read More...

Published Mon, Sep 10 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER POETRY INTERLUDE: As I Walked Out One Evening

By W. H. Auden As I walked out one evening, Walking down Bristol Street, The crowds upon the pavement Were fields of harvest wheat. And down by the brimming river I heard a lover sing Under an arch of the... Read More...

Published Wed, Sep 12 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Romney: Emergency Room Health Care

I missed the Mitt Romney and Barack Obama twin interviews on 60 Minutes last Sunday but these days we can rely on clips online to bring us the highlights. This one grabbed my attention (transcript below the video): TRANSCRIPT SCOTT... Read More...

Published Wed, Sep 26 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Large Medicare Part D Premium Increases for 2013

Did you receive your Medicare & You 2013 handbook this week? If you didn't, it should arrive soon. Or, you can view it online. As you know, the annual Medicare enrollment period begins in about two weeks, 15 October. Both... Read More...

Published Fri, Sep 28 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: September 16

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, Sep 16 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Elder Technology Experts

For as long as there has been a technology industry, it has been hard for IT people older than 40 to find work. It is, somehow, believed that after that birthday, they suddenly forget all their computer knowledge and skills... Read More...

Published Thu, Sep 20 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Being Old is Time Consuming

Crabby Old Lady is worn out and it's not because she has been extra special busy lately. It's just ordinary living that takes up more time than it did when she was younger. Or, maybe, it's the consequences of ordinary... Read More...

Published Wed, Sep 05 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: Louis Armstrong

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, Sep 09 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Farmer's Market Photos

Everybody needs a break now and then and it's time for me to take one – a day or two or three. We'll see how it goes. Meanwhile, here are a few photos that have been taking up space in... Read More...

Published Mon, Sep 24 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

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