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  • Opening Day of the Second Wind Tour

    [EDITORIAL NOTE: Not long ago, I told you about the new book, Second Wind, from geriatrician Dr. Bill Thomas and two TGB readers won tickets to the tour he is conducting throughout the United States that extends the ideas he... Read More...

  • How to Post Blog Comments

    Last week's post asking where TimeGoesBy readers live got an amazing response. There are 231 comments as of early this morning. In ten years of this blog, that many comments on one story has never happened and I had not... Read More...

  • What is Your Retirement Housing Preference?

    Last week we discussed location choices and the finances of retirement living. It was interesting to read how many who commented left an impression that elders and boomers coming up on retirement soon are all doing fine financially. Today, let's....

  • INTERESTING STUFF - 19 April 2014

    TWO GRANDMOTHERS FIRST AIRPLANE FLIGHT Just about every TGB reader has sent this or shorter versions of it. Here's the whole thing. ELDERS VOLUNTEER WITH FOSTER KIDS FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING Tom Delmore of crowsperch sent this story from PBS about....

  • Blog Blackout

    Since Thursday 19 April, Time Goes By and The Elder Storytelling Place have been offline. For the first day or two, the outages were intermittent and the two blogs were sometimes available. By Saturday or Sunday, nothing appeared when anyone... Read More...

  • Wrinkles, We Have Wrinkles

    It is, to me, the most offensive word there is about getting old: “anti-aging.” To be anti-aging is to be anti-life but even so, the word, the idea, is ubiquitous on the packaging of hundreds of brands of snake oil... Read More...

  • Depression, Elders and the Internet

    Throughout the decade-long history of this blog, I've written about the importance to elders of blogging and of the friendships that develop at a time in our lives when we have left behind the camaraderie of the workplace, when old... Read More.....

  • ELDER MUSIC: Celebrate the Curves

    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...

  • Medicare MEGO

    I stole that – MEGO – from my friend Joyce Wadler who, these days, writes the weekly I Was Misinformed column in The New York Times. Eons ago when she was a reporter at a different paper, she used that... Read More...

  • ELDER MUSIC: 1949

    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...

  • Mental Health Day No. 2

    What an interesting and fruitful discussion we had on Tuesday on the post about retirement living preferences. If you haven't read the comments, you should. You will be enlightened. Elizabeth left a comment that may or may not have been... Read More...

  • Mental Health Day 5

    Tom Delmore of crowsperch sent this little image. I think that for almost everyone it takes a lifetime to not only understand that what others think of us doesn't matter but to learn the greater truth, how you see yourself... Read More...

  • INTERESTING STUFF - 26 April 2014

    MARRIED 70 YEARS, THEY DIE A FEW HOURS APART Imagine being married – to the same person - for 70 years. Some people don't even get to live that long. This is the sweetest story: ”A couple who held hands... Read More...

  • The Technology Elders Use – And Don't

    When, a few months ago, I saw a new primary care physician, of course he drew blood for a bunch of tests. Two days later, I was delighted to receive an email from the large health provider with which he... Read More...

  • Dementia Fear

    Back in the stone age when we were little kids, it was called senility. Probably, like me, you knew an elder or two – perhaps family or maybe a neighbor – who fit that bill. Mostly, in my memory, they... Read More...
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