November 2013 - Time Goes By - The Network of Care

ELDER MUSIC: 1938

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 03 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Crabby Old Lady's Air Travel Travails

It was a terrific day at the Business Innovation Factory conference on Monday - a lot learned and good things to tell you about it, just not today. Here's why. By the time Crabby Old Lady got home from Providence,... Read More...

Published Fri, Nov 08 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

The Gatekeepers Program

In a related but entirely separate event from my trip to the Business Innovation Factory last week, back home on Thursday I attended a training session for the local Gatekeepers Program. ”Gatekeepers are people who come in to contact with... Read More...

Published Tue, Nov 12 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

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

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

Social Security COLA Increase: 1.5% - Whoopdedoo!

On Wednesday, it was announced that the Social Security cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for 2014 will be 1.5 percent. With the average benefit at around $14,000 per year, that means about $19 more per month for the average elder. Don't spend... Read...

Published Fri, Nov 01 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

How Do You Want to Live?

In last Monday's post, I told you that I was in Providence, Rhode Island for a conference on “Connected Aging” at the Business Innovation Factory (BFI) and that the overall issue to be addressed was the need for our culture... Read More...

Published Mon, Nov 11 2013 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Conspiring to Pretend We Are Not Old

EDITORIAL NOTE: Following the Business Innovation Factory conference I attended last week in Providence, Rhode Island, the organizers asked me to write a guest post about my experience with them. You can read it, titled Participatory Design Studio on...

Published Fri, Nov 15 2013 5:39 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

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

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

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

TimeGoesBy Takes a Break

Beginning today, Time Goes By is taking its first-ever-in-ten-years hiatus as is the companion blog, The Elder Storytelling Place. The reason is that I am in Providence, Rhode Island today for a conference about “connected aging” at the Business Innovation...

Published Mon, Nov 04 2013 4:29 AM by TIME GOES BY

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