May 2014 - Time Goes By - The Network of Care

Elder Vampires in Our Future?

A few days ago, this headline dropped into my mailbox: Young Blood Reverses Age-Related Brain Impairments in Old Mice Who could resist clicking that link? Don't tell me you are not, right now, envisioning Bill Nighy as the vampire Viktor... Read More...

Published Fri, May 09 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Net Neutrality and Elders

If you have been reading this blog for more than a couple of weeks, you know that I believe in the internet for old people with my heart and soul, for all the reasons I harp on: • It helps... Read More...

Published Tue, May 13 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

REPEAT: Net Neutrality on the Ropes

IMPORTANT EDITORIAL NOTE: Yesterday, my blog host again suffered a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack and both this blog and The Elder Storytelling Place were unavailable until late in the day. Therefore, I am leaving the Monday stories on.....

Published Tue, May 20 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 24 May 2014

92 YEAR OLD DENIED RIGHT TO VOTE As a result of a new voter ID law in Texas, 92-year-old Ruby Barber who was born in Tennessee and has voted all her life was refused an ID because she has no... Read More...

Published Sat, May 24 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Favorite Childhood Foods

Writing this blog has its ups and downs. There are times when I am dry – not an idea in my head, nothing I want to write. Other times, the future-topics list is so long that the problem becomes choosing.... Read More...

Published Thu, May 01 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Crabby Old Lady Laments the Future...

...at least as The New York Times reports it. In the past, predictions have usually usually appeared as science fiction fantasies of life 50 or a 100 years hence and it's always fun – and funny - when such prophecies... Read More...

Published Mon, May 05 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Three Rivers Village Update - May 2014

In every survey ever done, a consistent 90 percent or so of respondents say they want to live in their own homes until they die. This is fortunate because as I have mentioned in the past, there are not enough... Read More...

Published Thu, May 29 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

How It is to Be Old

Having fallen asleep with the television on a few nights ago, I woke a couple of hours later to the fragment of a sentence just before a commercial began: “...young people wondering how it is to be old.” Sleep for... Read More...

Published Wed, May 07 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: 1951 Again

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, May 11 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Customs of an Earlier Age

There are not usually many people in the streets of my suburban town. Even on weekends, I can walk two or three blocks in the main shopping area without passing anyone. That changes on holidays like last Sunday – Mothers... Read More...

Published Thu, May 15 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

ELDER MUSIC: Songs of Jimmy Webb

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, May 18 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Some Good and Not So Good Names for Old People

A whole bunch of readers sent me the link to an NPR story about what names old people like and don't like to be called. For me, the first problem was the NPR headline that referenced “the over-65 set” in... Read More...

Published Thu, May 22 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

Memorial Day 2014

This is a good day for a bit of discussion about the recent media attention to the problems of health care at the U.S. Veterans Administration. Last February, Senate Republicans blocked important legislation from Independent Senator Bernie Sanders of...

Published Mon, May 26 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 3 May 2014

GRANDFATHER SURPRISE The man you see in this video is an only child. So is his grown son. Watch his reaction when that son and his daughter-in-law tell him he is going to be a grandfather. THE RACE HORSE ARTIST... Read More...

Published Sat, May 03 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

INTERESTING STUFF – 31 May 2014

OLD PEOPLE CAN BE SO UNEXPECTEDLY COOL SOMETIMES This elder Italian joins some kids in a game of street soccer and shows some serious moves. Take a look: Huffpost has a some more information. U.S. LEADS THE WORLD IN OBESITY... Read More...

Published Sat, May 31 2014 5:30 AM by TIME GOES BY

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