April 2014 - Time Goes By - The Network of Care

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...

Published Sat, Apr 26 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

The Possibilities of the Internet

Marc Leavitt keeps a blog, is a regular contributor to The Elder Storytelling Place and is one of those TGB readers who has become an email friend. We live a continent apart so we are unlikely to meet in person... Read More...

Published Tue, Apr 29 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

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...

Published Thu, Apr 10 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Today I am 73 Years Old

That well-known phenomenon of time speeding up as we get older is in full force for me; it feels like yesterday was my 72nd birthday. Neither one of them – 72 or 73 – is remarkable in any way. Not... Read More...

Published Mon, Apr 07 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

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...

Published Tue, Apr 08 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 12 April 2014

FORD MUSTANG 50TH ANNIVERSARY One of the many terrific things about living in Manhattan is that there is no need to own a car, a possession I find annoying in the extreme. It always wants something – gas, tires, washing,... Read More...

Published Sat, Apr 12 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Crabby Old Lady and the Old Gray Lady

(For those who may not know, “The Old Gray Lady” is a nickname of The New York Times.) For the past few years at that newspaper there has been a blog titled The New Old Age where almost exclusively the... Read More...

Published Mon, Apr 14 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

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...

Published Sun, Apr 06 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

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....

Published Tue, Apr 15 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 5 April 2014

LE WEEK-END This British film is the story of Nick and Meg Burrows, a pair of academics, who spend the 30th anniversary of their no-longer-wonderful marriage in Paris. Le Week-End is funny and sad and poignant and lovely – think... Read More...

Published Sat, Apr 05 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

A New York Day with Granddaughter Hannah

There is a lot I want to accomplish in today's blog post so I hope you will stick with me until the end – it will be immensely worth it, I promise. First, a big thank you and many warm... Read More...

Published Wed, Apr 09 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Retirement Living Reality Check

In March, Better Home and Gardens Real Estate released a new survey about where baby boomers intend to retire that is getting some media attention. The big surprise, they say, is that the boomer generation does not want to live... Read More...

Published Fri, Apr 11 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

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...

Published Tue, Apr 01 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Retirement Investing Advice (?)

Undoubtedly you see as many financial services commercials on TV, in print and online as I do. In addition, I get dozens of pitches every year to review advice books about retirement investing or to interview so-called experts in the... Read More...

Published Wed, Apr 02 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: 1949