July 2013 - Time Goes By - The Network of Care

How Did You Spend Your Working Life?

Back in June at The Elder Storytelling Place, Lyn Burnstine wrote about the progression of her career from writer to musician and back again to writer in her old age. One reader, Karen Swift, left in part this comment: ”I... Read More...

Published Tue, Jul 16 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

The Trayvon/Zimmerman Verdict

Somewhere yesterday I read that approximately 11,000 black people have been murdered in the U.S. since young Trayvon Martin was shot by George Zimmerman in February 2012. Throughout the Florida trial of Zimmerman, I'd been wondering about exactly...

Published Mon, Jul 15 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: Drinking Songs Part 2

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, Jul 14 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 13 July 2013

FASCINATING AIDA We have featured the British comedy/singing group, Fascinating Aida, in the past. In this video, they take on the generations with their song, Down With the Kids. (Hat tip to Pamela of Costa de la Luz Gardening) You... Read More...

Published Sat, Jul 13 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Are You a Senior Center Snob?

I was. Throughout my adulthood, when my ignorance of senior centers was total, they conjured never-ending bingo games in my mind, daycare for old people who hadn't the wit about them for anything more challenging. When I started studying aging,.....

Published Fri, Jul 12 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Elders and Youth: More Alike Than You Think

Let me explain that I had some other things to do on Wednesday and needed to knock off a quick and dirty blog post – something that takes no time and doesn't stretch brain cells. In this circumstance, I've discovered... Read More...

Published Thu, Jul 11 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Sex in Old Age Makes You Look Younger (?)

There was something entirely different on my agenda for today's post but then that headline (minus the question mark) popped into the ol' inbox first thing yesterday and I couldn't resist tracking down who was claiming such a ridiculous thing...

Published Wed, Jul 10 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Enforcing Family Elder Care

On 1 July, a new law titled, Protection of the Rights and Interests of Elderly People, went into effect. In China, that is. It states in part, according to an article in the English-language, China Daily, “Family members should care... Read More...

Published Tue, Jul 09 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

The View from 80

Many years ago, walking on a gorgeous spring morning in Paris with his friend Samuel Beckett, a man said, “Doesn't a day like this make you glad to be alive?” to which Beckett responded, “I wouldn't go as far as... Read More...

Published Mon, Jul 08 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Songs About Cities: Paris

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, Jul 07 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 6 July 2013

GRANDMA MISAO AND HER CAT, FUKUMARU For 13 years Japanese photographer Miyoko Ihara has been photographing her grandmother and her grandmother's odd-eyed cat. Because my cat Ollie and I spend a lot of time looking directly in one another's eyes...

Published Sat, Jul 06 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Wisdom and Old Age

Some days ago, a friend said to me that I am wise. Of course I was flattered. And pleased. And while driving home from our lunch, I wished and wished that it were so. My friend, I think (who is... Read More...

Published Fri, Jul 05 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Independence Day 2013

Is there anyone else out there who, like me, never tires of well-done video of fireworks? Even though it's London on New Year's Day, I haven't found any I like better than this one I posted on the Fourth of... Read More...

Published Thu, Jul 04 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Appointment in Samarra [redux]

EDITORIAL NOTE: My brain always rebels more strongly than my body against hot weather and again, I'm feeling rather stupid while this heat wave goes on one more day. This, like yesterday's rerun, is from 2005. Due to the fable... Read More...

Published Wed, Jul 03 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

And When I Die [redux]

EDITORIAL NOTE: Whatever it was I so blithely said yesterday about the heat not bothering me, it IS sapping my mental strength and I can't think well enough (or, maybe, just don't want to) to write anything cogent. Also, it's... Read More...

Published Tue, Jul 02 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

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