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  • 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...

  • 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...

  • ELDER MUSIC: 1958 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...

  • Preparing for Grandparenthood

    On Tuesday's post about not having borne children and therefore having an old age without grandchildren, Karen Swift mentioned this in her comment: ”My first grandchild will arrive in November...I have been thinking a lot about exactly what kind of...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • ELDER MUSIC: U.S. States, Alabama to Georgia

    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...

  • Have You Had Your Best Jump Yet?

    I don't mean to go all Pollyana on you. If you've been hanging out here awhile, you know that although I am fascinated with the many aspects of growing old – both personally and in general – I am deeply... Read More...

  • 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...

  • ELDER MUSIC: 1959 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...

  • 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...

  • Today is Millie's 89th Birthday

    I'm pretty sure Millie Garfield is my oldest blog friend. She was about six months ahead of me, in October 2003, when she started My Mom's Blog. I am also pretty sure that I discovered her blog while I was... Read More...

  • The Best is Yet to Come

    When we are in high school and college, most of us are eager to get on with “real life.” Whether our hopes are modest or grandiose, we anticipate, even daydream about the mark we are going to make on the... 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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