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Happy Halloween 2014
Searching for something special to celebrate Halloween here today, I couldn't find anything until this. It is a beautifully made video titled The Kingdom of Witches that sets a great spooky mood for Halloween. The music is by Nox Arcana... Read More...
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Fri, Oct 31 2014 5:30 AM
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Email Bankruptcy
[EDITORIAL NOTE: It tells you something about Crabby's week, if not life, that you are getting missives (read: complaints) from her two days in a row. Aren't you lucky. Every day, Crabby Old Lady struggles to keep up with email.... Read More....
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Thu, Oct 30 2014 5:30 AM
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By the Hair on Crabby Old Lady's Chinny Chin Chin
Before she even gets started, let Crabby Old Lady be clear: she is deeply grateful that so far – at age 73 – she has escaped the common conditions and diseases of old age. No arthritis, heart disease, diabetes, high... Read More...
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Wed, Oct 29 2014 5:30 AM
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A Mother's Stroke
”This has to be one of the modern circles of hell, stroke. Or should we call it our plague? One day my mother is walking two miles on the beach and doing crossword puzzles in ink. The next day her... Read More...
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Tue, Oct 28 2014 5:30 AM
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My Visitors From Oz
If you read Peter Tibbles' Elder Music column yesterday, you know that he and Norma Gates, the Assistant Musicologist, traveled all the way from Melbourne to visit me in Oregon. Oh, okay. The journey wasn't just to see me. They... Read More.....
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Mon, Oct 27 2014 5:30 AM
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ELDER MUSIC: Here and There 2014
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...
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Sun, Oct 26 2014 5:30 AM
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INTERESTING STUFF – 25 October 2014
IN PRAISE OF KNOTS According to the story at The New York Times, ”Knots are an ancient technology. They predate the axe and the wheel, quite possibly the use of fire and maybe even man himself: Some scientists have speculated... Read More...
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Sat, Oct 25 2014 5:30 AM
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Old People Want More From Life than Safety
On Wednesday this week, I told you about Dr. Atul Gawande's exceptional new book, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End. The post prompted a friend I'd not heard from in awhile to email. Suzette Boydston is director... Read More....
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Fri, Oct 24 2014 5:30 AM
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Social Security COLA for 2015
Yesterday, the Social Security Administration announced the amount of the annual Social Security cost-of-living-adjustment (COLA) for 2015. It is a minor uptick of 1.7 percent. For the average monthly benefit of $1191.70, that means a $20.25 increase...
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Thu, Oct 23 2014 5:30 AM
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A Super-Important, Amazing New Book on End-of-Life Care
For the past couple of days I've been reading Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End from Atul Gawande, the Harvard Medical School professor who is also a surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and a... Read More...
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Wed, Oct 22 2014 5:30 AM
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Crabby Old Lady v. the Cable Company
Crabby Old Lady does not like using her blog for rants about personal issues but every couple of years something so egregious happens that she cannot help herself. This one is about trying to reduce her cable/internet costs and let... Read More...
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Tue, Oct 21 2014 5:30 AM
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It's That Time Again - Medicare Enrollment
(EDITORIAL NOTE: International readers can take the day off – most of you live in countries with more sane health programs than the United States has and don't suffer this tedious, irritating annual ritual.) Last Wednesday, 15 October, marked the...
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Mon, Oct 20 2014 5:30 AM
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ELDER MUSIC: States – South Dakota to Wyoming
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...
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Sun, Oct 19 2014 5:30 AM
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INTERESTING STUFF – 18 October 2014
114-YEAR-OLD LIES TO GET A FACEBOOK PAGE Anna Stoer is 114 years old. You read that right – 114. She lives in Minnesota. She wanted to create a Facebook page. She had to lie because the age dropdown menu goes... Read More...
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Sat, Oct 18 2014 6:04 AM
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Beer and Billiards for Healthy Aging
“Active aging” is what they call it. You know, all that bungee jumping, marathon running and climbing high mountains they tell us old people need to do these days to stay healthy. No slacking off with a nap in the... Read More...
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Fri, Oct 17 2014 5:30 AM
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