January 2013 - Time Goes By - The Network of Care

History of Old Age – The Ancients

It's been awhile but you may recall that I am working on a personal project, a history of old age. Previous posts here, here and here. It's been slow going. I keep reading about the through the centuries – my... Read More...

Published Thu, Jan 24 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

Sleep and Short-Term Memory

Old people regularly lament our short-term memory lapses and we often do it with rueful jokes as if we are whistling past the graveyard of brain cells. An example from a story here in 2009 when I lived in Maine:... Read More...

Published Tue, Jan 29 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

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

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

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

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

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

VINTAGE TGB: What Happened to My Butt?

EDITORIAL NOTE: I needed a day off yesterday for a day trip to the Oregon coast with my friend and house guest, Jim Stone, so you are getting a vintage post from a couple of years ago. Everything I said... Read More...

Published Fri, Jan 25 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

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

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

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

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

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