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INTERESTING STUFF – 30 November 2013

ALL EARTH'S HISTORY IN TWO MINUTES Cutaway Productions is a student-run video production company working out of Stillwater Area High School in Minnesota. A student who uses the screen name drivinman687 wrote this on the YouTube page about his video...

Published Sat, Nov 30 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY
The Day After Thanksgiving 2013

Is everyone appropriately stuffed from their feast yesterday? I've always thought Thanksgiving leftovers were more fun the meal itself. As we discussed a couple of days ago, neither I nor any of the 30-plus people who commented are the sort... Read...

Published Fri, Nov 29 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY
Thanksgiving Day 2013

I was a week late last year in discovering that 2012 was the 45th anniversary of Arlo Guthrie's epic Thanksgiving fable, Alice's Restaurant. I also discovered, all these years later, that with a couple of minor lapses, I still know... Read More...

Published Thu, Nov 28 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY
Hannukah 5774

It is just weird that the first day of Hannukah this year comes on American Thanksgiving day – or vice versa depending on your point of view. The first candle is lit tonight and it is fortunate for tomorrow's meal... Read More...

Published Wed, Nov 27 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY
Crabby Old Lady and Thanksgiving Shopping

(Before Crabby Old Lady gets into this rant, she needs to tell you that she abhors crowds and has never in her life gone shopping on black Friday or any other crunch shopping day. There is no sale on earth... Read More...

Published Tue, Nov 26 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY
Elder Quality of Life

Referring to a most amazingly fleet-of-foot dancer in a video on Saturday's Interesting Stuff post, Darlene Costner commented, ”I would be grateful if I could still walk without staggering like an old drunk.” I certainly understand that and when I...

Published Mon, Nov 25 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY
ELDER MUSIC: Lead Guitarists – Commenters' Choice

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, Nov 24 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY
INTERESTING STUFF – 23 November 2013

FORCED TO MOVE HIS WIFE'S GRAVE Remember back in October when I told you about Jim Davis's court battle to keep the grave of his wife, Patsy, in their front yard? Now he has lost that fight. ”With husband James... Read More...

Published Sat, Nov 23 2013 6:43 AM by TIME GOES BY
Kennedy Assassination

An orgy of remembrance has saturated the media this week leading up to today, the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. I'm not so sure about people younger than 40 or 45, but for anyone old... Read More...

Published Fri, Nov 22 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY
Senator Elizabeth Warren's Important Values Speech

On Monday, Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts gave an important speech on the floor of U.S. Senate about our retirement crisis. It's only about five-and-a-half minutes and if you have watched it, please do: As you know, to end.....

Published Thu, Nov 21 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY
We Grow Eyelashes – Why Not Hair?

Some of you were nice enough to say kind things about my appearance in this photograph taken during the conference I attended at the Business Innovation Factory in Providence, Rhode Island a couple of weeks ago. If you have been... Read More...

Published Wed, Nov 20 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY
<em>The Beauty of Aging</em>

In the United States, beauty and aging are believed not to be related. But that is only because our idea of beauty is so crabbed and stunted – applied only to physical beauty and then to only one kind: youthful.... Read More...

Published Tue, Nov 19 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY
Doris Lessing Dies at Age 94

When a news alert box popped onto my computer screen that Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing had died at her home in London on Sunday, I stopped what I was doing and thought about how I have reached the age... Read More...

Published Mon, Nov 18 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY
ELDER MUSIC: 1939

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, Nov 17 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY
INTERESTING STUFF – 16 November 2013

CHEAP FLIGHTS As you know, I didn't have the most pleasant flights to and from Rhode Island in early November so when TGB reader sent this video from the Fascinating Aida comedy group, I got a great laugh. Be sure... Read More...

Published Sat, Nov 16 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

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