January 2013 - Time Goes By - The Network of Care

Scaring the Pants Off Elders – Part 1

On Monday, I felt my blood pressure rising as President Barack Obama said in his press conference that if Congress does not raise the debt ceiling, the federal government will not be able to pay all its bills including Social... Read More...

Published Wed, Jan 16 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

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

ELDER MUSIC: Felix Mendelssohn

[Mendelssohn1.jpg] 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... Read...

Published Sun, Jan 13 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF: 12 January 2013

JACK LEW'S SCRIBBLEY SIGNATURE Okay, I'll admit my signature is not readable either, but I have not been nominated to be Secretary of the Treasury. If Lew is confirmed by Congress his signature, previewed by New York magazine, will appear... Read...

Published Sat, Jan 12 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

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

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

GAY AND GRAY: Gay Elder Takes Up a Cause

Gay and Gray is a monthly column at Time Goes By written by Jan Adams (bio) in which she thinks out loud for us on issues of aging lesbians and gay men. Jan also writes on many topics at her... Read More...

Published Tue, Jan 08 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

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

ELDER MUSIC: John Hartford

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 06 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTIING STUFF: 5 January 2013

DOWNTON ABBEY RESUMES TOMORROW A reminder for fans among TGB readers, Downton Abbey resumes tomorrow – Sunday – evening. Another American joins the cast this season, 78-year-old Shirley MacLaine. For awhile, MacLaine was on my radar more than entertainers...

Published Sat, Jan 05 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

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

Crabby Old Lady's New Health Annoyance

Another year, another ailment. And nobody ever tells you to expect them. So there was Crabby Old Lady last Thursday afternoon sitting in the place she can most frequently be found - in front of the computer. She doesn't recall... Read More...

Published Wed, Jan 02 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

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