January 2013 - Time Goes By - The Network of Care

Crabby Old Lady: Dead or Alive?

This has been a disastrous holiday season for Crabby Old Lady. Not the holidays themselves; just everything else. To give you an idea, the least of it is that her heating has not worked since Christmas. It is finally being... Read More...

Published Mon, Jan 07 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Attitude Can Keep You Healthy

If you have been reading Time Goes By for a couple of years or more, you know that there is growing evidence that your personal attitude toward getting old can affect your health and even your longevity. I first reported... Read More...

Published Fri, Jan 11 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

VINTAGE TGB: Long Hair and Old Women

EDITORIAL NOTE: I needed a day off from writing yesterday, so here's a vintage TGB for you today from October 2009. The Elder Storytelling Place story is new, linked as always at the bottom of this post. Forty-seven-year-old TGB reader,... Read More...

Published Tue, Jan 15 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 19 January 2013

PRESIDENTIAL CAT HERDING The phrase “herding cats” has always delighted me as a perfect description of any task involving too many unruly participants – someone is always escaping the net. A similar thought led to artist Barry Blitt's New Yorker....

Published Sat, Jan 19 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Ageism and Oprah Winfrey

Clearly, I have not been paying attention. I had thought Oprah Winfrey made a big deal a few years ago about retiring from television. I was greatly relieved then because throughout the 25 or 30 years of her TV show,... Read More...

Published Wed, Jan 23 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: Don’t Get Around Much Anymore

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, Jan 27 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Ageist Politics

As the debate on the fiscal cliff was winding down toward the deadline earlier this week, Representative Steve LaTourette (R–OH) is said to have told his Congressional colleagues: “We should not take a package put together by a bunch of... Read More....

Published Fri, Jan 04 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Surviving Grief

Although I otherwise have no religion, I retain the Jewish ritual of yahrzeit, burning a candle each year to commemorate the death of loved ones. I'm pretty sure that if I followed Torah teachings, I'm supposed to burn candles only... Read More...

Published Thu, Jan 10 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Elders and Influenza

Except as seems useful or interesting now and then, it is not the goal of Time Goes By to keep readers abreast of current health issues. But this year, the flu season arrived early and is more widespread than has... Read More...

Published Mon, Jan 14 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Scaring Elders - Part 3: A Bad Week for America's Elders

After giving you a couple of posts filled with discouraging news about the future of Medicare and Social Security, today I intended there to be something more amusing about old age, something we might have a bit of fun with.... Read More...

Published Fri, Jan 18 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

“The Commitments We Make to Each Other”

TGB Reader John left a comment after President Barack Obama's speech yesterday: "The speech was wonderful. Fox news headline: Obama declares 'Hands off Entitlements.' Hooray! Well, Fox News, as frequently happens, got it wrong. What the...

Published Tue, Jan 22 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF: 26 January 2013

THE WRITER WHO COULD NOT READ Imagine if overnight words on a page all looked like gibberish. Imagine then, too, that you make your living as a writer. Take a look: You can read more here: WHERE IN THE WORLD... Read More...

Published Sat, Jan 26 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

An Update: The Best Books on Aging

It's hard for me to keep up with the housekeeping around this blog, but four-and-a-half years is a bit much even for my lazy ass. Imagine if I hadn't dusted the house in that long? But that's what it's been... Read More...

Published Thu, Jan 31 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Social Security Survives – This Time

After an offer from President Obama to throw elders under the economic bus by changing the way Social Security cost-of-living adjustments are made from the current CPI-W to the chained CPI which would reduce increases, the fiscal cliff bill finally.....

Published Thu, Jan 03 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Social Security Need-to-Know Housekeeping

Nothing about politics today or even about the politicians who want to kill Social Security. Just a couple of things you definitely need to know. SWITCH TO ELECTRONIC-ONLY BENEFIT PAYMENTS Although we've mentioned this before, it has been awhile and...

Published Wed, Jan 09 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

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