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  • What Sequestration Means for Elders

    In nine days, on 1 March, the so-called “sequestration” - also known as the Budget Control Act - will take effect meaning automatic and immediate across-the-board cuts to federal spending in the amount of $85 billion for 2013. That is,... Read More.....

  • No Happy Endings

    Remember last year's Marigold or, more formally, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel? It was a joyful romp of a film with a cast of long-lived, professional actors who can't be beat – the best of the best of the Brits... Read More...

  • Mr. Rogers For Grownups

    My brother and I were too old for Mr. Rogers Neighborhood. We were adults already when the children's program began in 1968, and since neither of us had kids, we had no reason to see it. That doesn't mean I... Read More...

  • Elder Meetup?

    As noted yesterday, I'm on hiatus until Saturday to get some blog housekeeping done. As filler today, I'm repeating a story from 2010 about a blog meetup here at my home. It was loads of fun to spend the day... Read More...

  • The Elderblog List Needs Your Help

    It felt good last week to get the Best Books on Aging page updated so I decided to catch up on some other blog housekeeping I've let slide for too long. This time, I need some help from you. If... Read More...

  • INTERESTING STUFF: 2 February 2013

    100TH ANNIVERSARY OF GRAND CENTRAL STATION One hundred years ago today, Grand Central Station opened for business in New York City. It is a magnificent building – breathtakingly beautiful – and as much as I hated my four-and-a-half hour commute... Read...

  • Why Medical Prices are Sky High

    I had no intention of spending the entire morning yesterday reading a 15,000 word report on medical costs while filling 11 pages with notes. Come on, it's Time magazine, for god's sake. I stopped reading it years ago due to... Read More...

  • Spring? In February?

    Don't tell the grandkids but when I was little, instead of President's Day, we had Abraham Lincoln's birthday AND George Washington's birthday – both of them holidays. Now school children get just one day off in February. Most of “official...

  • ELDER MUSIC: Millions

    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...

  • Valentine's Day, Social Security and Darlene Costner

    DARLENE COSTNER As many of you are aware, Darlene Costner is a reliable supplier of terrific items for Saturday's Interesting Stuff posts and she often comments here at TGB, at The Elder Storytelling Place and on other elderblogs. (Until last... Read...

  • The Class of '57

    I'm taking the rest of this week off from blogging. If there is ever going to be a new Elderbloggers List and some other fixes needed to the backend of Time Goes By, this is the only way to get... Read More...

  • ELDER MUSIC: Months

    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...

  • INTERESTING STUFF – 23 February 2013

    1969 INTERNET PREDICTION The video doesn't mention the word “internet” but that's what it is predicting. Note how the wife's role is consigned to childcare and shopping still in 1969, and the assumption that the husband pays the bills. But...

  • Elders and Loss

    When our culture at large is not ignoring old people, it celebrates us in an especially demeaning manner by holding up as paragons the freaks of old age - the ones who climb Mt. Everest at 80 or deep sea... Read More...

  • Another Minor Affliction of Age

    God knows big-time health issues commonly accompany old age – cancer, heart disease, diabetes, dementia, hypertension, Parkinson's and much more. According to one source, 88 percent of people older than 65 have at least one chronic disease. So, every...
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