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  • His Turn to be Young

    Like yesterday, I need some free time to meet some other obligations. There are all kinds of ways to fill this spot when that happens, posts that don't take much effort. The easiest: I could leave it blank but that... Read More...

  • Stupid After Lunch

    Anyone who knows me well or, more particularly, talks with me in the afternoon or evening knows that my conversation then is peppered with such phrases as, “Oh, what is that word?” or “Well, I don't recall the name right... Read More...

  • INTERESTING STUFF – 16 August 2014

    THE 105-YEAR-OLD TATTOOED LADY Mimi Rosenthal has an interesting-enough life story without having become, starting at age 99, a tattooed lady. She graduated from college when hardly any women did that, raised two kids and ran a travel agency for... Read...

  • ELDER MUSIC: 1957 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...

  • Elders Reading for Pleasure II

    It wasn't planned, but apparently this has become book week at Time Goes By. Yesterday, we featured the poetry of Dorothy Trogdon and Wednesday's report on a list of 100 best novels chosen by two male journalists led to requests... Read More....

  • Being Old Without Children

    In February 2011, I posted a story about being old and childless titled, Having No Children – Regrets? It was popular. There were many more of comments than other days with a lot of thoughtful discussion. But I had forgotten... Read More...

  • INTERESTING STUFF – 30 August 2014

    THE ALS ICE CHALLENGE Unless you've been under a rock for the past week, you know about the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge during which mostly celebrities and politicians who want a few more minutes than usual in the spotlight sit... Read More...

  • 87-Year-Old Evicted for Using Legal Weed

    There are so many things wrong with what has happened to Lea Olivier that it's going to take some unpacking to understand it all. Before I get to that, let me stack up two or three presumptions about where I'm... Read More...

  • ELDER POETRY INTERLUDE: Old Folks Laugh

    Maya Angelou, who died earlier this year at age 86, seems to have been beloved by all. She was a wise woman - wise, I think, even as a young-ish woman. There are a couple of things she said somewhere... Read More...

  • The Tyranny of “Still”

    Last week, a news anchor was interviewing 74-year-old Tom Hayden on one of the cable news channels. I wasn't paying attention so I don't recall which channel nor why he was being interviewed but the anchor's introduction certainly caught my...

  • Elders, Sex and HIV/AIDS

    Do you know that according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), in 2011, people aged 50 and older accounted for 24 percent (7,771) of the estimated 32,052 AIDS diagnoses in the United States that year? That would be “diagnoses”... Read More...

  • INTERESTING STUFF – 2 August 2014

    JUSTICE GINSBERG ON HER HOBBY LOBBY DISSENT The three female Supreme Court justices were unanimous in their minority dissent on the Hobby Lobby, contraceptive decision. Here, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg discusses the “blistering” objection she wrote and...

  • The Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations

    ”There’s no shame in spending an afternoon on a park bench reading a novel, or watching the children play. It is expected of the elderly, even when they are in good health...But idleness is only satisfying for a while; repose... Read More...

  • Shakespeare's Old Age

    I am the first to admit that my knowledge of Shakespeare is spotty and even that may be overstating it. Something like a hundred years ago, I read all 37 plays along with some learned commentary and have re-read or... Read More...

  • Me and My Elderblog

    Ever since Facebook launched in 2004, and even moreso following Twitter's online birth two years later, people who think they are in the know have been predicting the death of blogging – translation: long-form writing. The prognosticators often include...
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