November 2012 - Time Goes By - The Network of Care

Our Voices, Our Votes

For those of us too poor to purchase a president or even a congressperson to do our bidding, election day is the only chance we have for our voices to be heard about what we believe is important to our... Read More...

Published Tue, Nov 06 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Elders and Hurricane Sandy

Look at this amazing photograph of a city divided by power or the lack of it. Uptown, where there is power, is its usual bright and shiny self. Downtown has disappeared into the dark. It is electricity that makes big-city,... Read More...

Published Fri, Nov 02 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF: 10 November 2012

VETERANS DAY TOMORROW Canadian TGB reader Donna T had to remind me that tomorrow, Sunday, is Veterans Day in the U.S. Similarly, it is Remembrance Day in Canada. What a jerk I can be and in this case, I can't... Read More...

Published Sat, Nov 10 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

How Not to be an Old Person

With so many baby boomers entering their mid-sixties, being old has become the new cool age group for the media. They vie among themselves for attention, intent on advising Crabby Old Lady on how to avoid being old – or,... Read More...

Published Wed, Nov 14 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Not on the Backs of Elders

For the nearly 10 years I've been writing this blog and paying close attention to the ways of Washington as they relate to elders, someone there has been trying to privatize, reduce, cut or kill Social Security. Mainstream media generally... Read...

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

INTERESTING STUFF: 24 November 2012

LONGEST CHOCOLATE TRAIN EVER Oh, you're gonna love this. No more words – just watch. KEY AND PEELE IMPERSONATE THE PREZ This is wildly inventive, clever and hilarious. It takes not one, but two of these guys, Keegan-Michael Key and... Read More.....

Published Sat, Nov 24 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Being Old: When Strangers Notice

This is a story about how people behave differently with you when you're old. I didn't see it that way when this happened; a friend later explained. It was Wednesday morning, the day before Thanksgiving, and it was to be... Read More...

Published Wed, Nov 28 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Hurricane Sandy and the 2012 Election

How does a 65-year-old American, especially one who was governor of a state for four years, not know that in a major disaster – of which there have been many in recent years – food donations are not helpful? Long... Read More...

Published Thu, Nov 01 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

The Election and the Storm

There isn't much else going on this first Monday in November other than the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy and anticipation of tomorrow's quadrennial vote. All I can say about the latter is, it's about time. I had almost begun to... Read More...

Published Mon, Nov 05 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER PROSE: M.F.K. Fisher

This is from an interview published in 1990 in The Ageless Spirit, edited by Phillip Berman and Connie Goldman. The book is a collection of conversations with people age 70 and older. “My husband told me that every self-respecting woman... Read More....

Published Fri, Nov 09 2012 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

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Our Voices, Our Votes

Elders and Hurricane Sandy

INTERESTING STUFF: 10 November 2012

How Not to be an Old Person

Not on the Backs of Elders

INTERESTING STUFF: 24 November 2012

Being Old: When Strangers Notice

Hurricane Sandy and the 2012 Election

The Election and the Storm

ELDER PROSE: M.F.K. Fisher

What is Ageism and What Is Not?

Uncluttering Seven Decades of Life

The Day After Thanksgiving 2012

You, Me and Social Security 2012 – Part 1: The Problem

Testing for Alzheimer's Disease